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Originally Posted by rkomar
That was my experience, as well. I still go back and re-read many of the books I enjoyed back then. In many cases, they are just as enjoyable, sometimes in ways I didn't appreciate back then. In other cases (and I include the Covenant and Shannara series in these), the writing has so many problems that it just gets in the way of my enjoying the stories. I guess I've gotten pickier about style over the years.
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Well, back in the seventies we were stuck with the selection that showed up in the library, or the tiny bookstores at the mall. Occaisionally we might get to go into the nearest real city to a big used bookstore, but most of the time science fiction and fantasy readers read everything that came in because our genre wasn't terribly catered to. We still had periods with nothing new in the genre.
Ergot we often read stuff that was awful, hoping it would somehow get better. Some of it absolutely refused to get better no matter how many books were put out.
As an aside, I think Terry Brooks only sold as well as he did because his hardbacks came with
Brothers Hildebrandt posters.