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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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I read mostly SF and crime. I got bored by Weber after 4-5 books. I have in my reading queue books by Neil Gaiman, China Meiville, Ian Banks, and so on. So a new author really have to be better then the books that are waiting to be read.