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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The bigger question is why the mass audience is style and tone deaf, and finds them readable.
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Maybe because they only read very few books, so they don't have much to compare the writing with - it's just what a book is like.
Somehow I'm reminded of Harry Potter fans who thought that Rowling was an UTTER GENIUS for inventing all those creatures like house elves and hippogriffs and centaurs, or of people who thought the flying mountains in
Avatar were amazingly original, rather than a fantasy staple...