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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Have you turned on the radio lately? There's a big difference between being popular and being good -- especially where art is involved.
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Bet if you ask Britney Spears she'll pick popular.
Popular = money
I have read many books that were considered poorly written that I enjoyed, Battlefield Earth for one, and I have read some "Contemporary Classics*" that I couldn't finish, The Color Purple comes to mind. I think it all comes down to what we like and what we don't.
I personally wouldn't be caught reading a romance novel, but by the same token there are a lot of people on this forum that wouldn't be caught dead reading classic science fiction. It all comes down to tastes or opinions, and as me mammy always says, opinions are just like assholes, everyones got one.
*I won't bring up Shakespeare who wrote some excellent work, but I always found them a little boring, probably because I had to read them in class.
I just looked up the word decimate, the definition I saw was the one I was taught 40 years ago, whats the current meaning you keep eluding to? I would have known that I finished reading the posts, sorry.