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Originally Posted by Hitch
Oh, I dunno. I've seen some things, in my travels, particularly around the KDP, that I think are pretty universally considered "bad books," except, perhaps, by the person who wrote it. There are some things that are flat-out unreadable. If a book is literally incoherent, how can anyone disagree that it's a bad book?
A book, if naught else, MUST be readable; it has to be able to convey its ideas, its characters, its plot or theme or whatever to an average reader (for its target market). If it is unable to do that, due to the exceedingly poor quality of the writing, I don't think that it can be, by anyone's lights, a "good" book. It fails by definition, on the face of the thing.
Juz sayin'.
Hitch
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I don't know...there are books that others consider *great* books that I find to be unreadable...and before you come back and say that I'm not the target market, I have to say that this whole debate started because someone didn't like reading books about children who were heroes, and it morphed from there into someone else saying that
"A GOOD book is written for everyone..."
Shari