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Originally Posted by moonshot
But why should badly written books that I would have to pay for be allowed through the net, where as badly build houses should not?  |
Because a badly built house can be tested against standards, such as structural integrity, strength of support walls, etcetera. As soon as all the criteria are met, the house is OK, but it can still be a bad house to some people, while it's a good house to others. A 50mē appartment is fine for a bachelor, who is out and about to work for 12 hours a day, but it doesn't work for a family of 8. For the bachelor, the house/appartment is fine, for the family it's bad.
Same goes for books. As long as it can be read without problems (on an e-reader, or as a paperback), then it is up to the reader to decide if the content is bad or not.
FYI: "The discovery of heaven", by the Dutch writer Harry Mulish, is considered a masterpiece and maybe already even a classic, not only over here, but in the rest of the world as well. I won't touch it with a ten foot pole, because I absolutely detest Mulish' writing style. To me, all of his books are bad (and boring), not worth the cost of the paper.