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Old 01-10-2014, 03:17 PM   #4
eschwartz
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It may be *quality* but there is a difference between a good read and something fantastic that really makes a name for itself, etc.

As a reader, well, I haven't read any of his books, but I highly doubt he is a writer on the level of Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, George R. R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, etc.

And more importantly, he never can be.

True quality work will always take time. Regardless of how error-free your books are.

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"Being an author is like being a shark, you have to keep swimming or you die," he says. "People don't want to wait a year and a half for the next book in the series, they want instant gratification."
Most people want instant gratification, true enough, and that is what he is targeting! But his books won't stick with people and remain cult classics. True book nerds will pass over his books.

Well, now that I have gone ahead and read so much into this, I kind of have to read at least one of his books, don't I, to see if I was right,...
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