Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 02-13-2015, 02:12 PM   #305
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
I'm surprised you like Piers Anthony and don't like The Hunger Games 1 (maybe you didn't mention THG). I read some of the Tarot series, and I don't see much to differentiate it and The Hunger Games. They are both action-packed and fast-moving. They are both fairly superficial works with little character development. But they are both fun. Actually, I'd say the Hunger Games was better written, but I liked them both. But certainly, IMO Ready Player One was a better book.
Asprin wrote the Myth books. Some of the Piers Anthony books are OK and readable. I did not say I did not like The Hunger Game. It was an OK read. But it was not a very good sf book. And Asprin and Piers Anthony do not write very good sf books either.

You do not seem to be able to grasp that just because you think a book is not very good you cannot like reading it. Asprin, Anthony and similar authors are often mind candy. But mind candy is fun to read sometimes but that does not mean that you vote for mind candy for the Hugos.
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