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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
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.
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Entirely possible. Awareness and appreciation of style comes from experience. If you lack it...
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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...
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I saw that years ago from kids who raved that Piers Anthony was the greatest fantasy writer
ever. Save that they'd read little else, and had nothing to compare against.
(And there were the on the folks who read Terry Brooks' "Shanarra" series, and thought Tolkien ripped him off in LoTR. Er, savvy copyright date? Tolkien started writing what became LoTR before Brooks was
born...)
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Dennis