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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
As a reader, if it's a good story, does it matter who wrote it?
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I'd say it does (all ethical considerations aside) if I wish to read
more written by that author.
Besides, the style is nearly as important as the story.
I read Harry Turtledove's
Guns of the South some years ago, I picked it up because the question of what would happen if modern weaponry were dumped into a historical setting -- like what if Custer's boys had H&K MP5s?
That book looks at what might happen if the South had AK47s during the U.S. Civil War. The premise was intriguing, and the story was compelling (as well as as historically accurate in the
details as could be expected), but I doubt I'll ever read another book by Turtledove because I found his style dry and mildly annoying. Pure personal preference, and I recommend that book to others who might be interested without reservation: it's a good book, I just didn't like the way it was written.
So on the other side of the original topic of this post, I'd also like to be able know which books I want to
avoid because the writer's style isn't pleasing to me. Both of those are hard to do if you don't know who the author
is. 