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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Yes. Otherwise "well written" is a synonym for "popular", and that doesn't seem like a very useful definition to me.
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But is it any worse than having "well written" being only a matter of personal opinion? At least popular has some means of independent measurement. If you happen to read my OP you will notice that my proposal was only that very popular meant not badly written, not that it was necessarily well written, it may have been merely adequate (not many people here seem to acknowledge that such a middle ground between good and bad can exist).
I would also like to re-emphasize what I indicated in my OP: that I was specifically referring to books popular in and of themselves - as opposed to popular for external reasons (like famous author or famous event), I don't want you to think that I am including every football player's memoirs in this
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