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Originally Posted by shalym
So are you saying that those books didn't meet your standards? But aren't they traditionally published? Nominated for awards? I thought you implied that your method of choosing would effectively weed out "mediocre" books?
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Earlier in this thread, the focus seemed to be on weeding out books that did not meet minimal standards of spelling and grammar. These standards are pretty much objective, and many of us rely on the traditional publishers to provide books that meet these standards.
But matters of taste are subjective. The publishers are the
first filter for basic competence in storytelling, but of course they're not the
only filter.
I dislike entire genres of writing, but I'm not going to claim that that means all the books in those genres are mediocre or poorly written.