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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Hmm... I guess my standards are more subjective. When I am going through a large selection of books, online, at a bookstore, at the library, whatever, I am trying to find a book that I am sufficiently interested in, to buy it.
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Ditto.
I'm more interested in a new, different experience, or one that takes me places I haven't been, intellectually or emotionally, even if slightly flawed--David Weber's famed datadumps--than a book an english professor might hold up as an example of fabulous wordsmithing.
But then, I'm not into lit-fic, but rather SF, where the primary object of the story is ideas and meaning, not style.