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Originally Posted by Luffy
Interesting way of looking at things. A compatible critic is an animal I've yet to meet though, so what I said might be very unlikely.
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I realize that that is not likely to ever happen of course. But think about it for a moment if everyone was content with how things were those men who contributed to the idea of electric light wouldn't have done so because gas lighting was good enough, which means that Tom Edison wouldn't have worked to make it practical either, and the same can be applied to book criticism I think. If everyone liked what was already out there and saw no need to look for new authors to read because the books already published were 'good enough' to fulfill everyone's reading desires there wouldn't be new books because no one would be reviewing the new authors and no publisher would be printing a new author's books either.