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Originally Posted by JeffElkins
I have a lot of respect for anyone that has the perseverance to see beyond a blank page to one finished book, much less four! As far as her being a "crap" writer, that's your opinion. Obviously millions disagree.
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Today there are tons and tons of books being published, mostly by their authors on Lulu and such, so that is not the big deal it used to be.
Regarding literary merit - I think that is irrelevant in the case of Ms. Meyer since my strong opinion is that you cannot discuss such for a work which is newer than 100-150 years.
She fulfills a need for her audience so she sells tons of books and I respect that - I am not her intended audience of course, but then most people are not anyway.
If anyone thinks that a popular writer that found an audience that wants his/her work in large numbers is writing *crap*, they are more than welcome to try and do it too and get rich. To me those kind of comments sound like sour grapes and it surprises me why they are made mostly only about writers, but not about actors, sport players and such, people that make tons of money for fulfilling a need of many people...
Maybe because deep inside most of us think that we can write a book, but we know we cannot act/ do not have the good looks of Brad Pitt or play baseball like ARod...
Still sour grapes - if it were easy to repeat Ms. Meyer' success, just go and do it...