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Originally Posted by eschwartz
When the author's judgment agrees with everyone else's assessment, then I feel justified in saying the author is correct. 
Clearly you are. |
Well, when he wrote them he probably thought they were good because we authors rarely let the public (or even friends) look at stuff we already know is bad. Writing involves a lot of growth. Those books may have been the best he could write at the time (either because of distractions, youth, lack of experience, whatever) and he probably liked them and believed in the stories. It may have been after criticism that he saw their flaws...