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Old 08-31-2015, 10:29 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
He calls him "mediocre", but "mediocre" means "of average quality, neither good nor bad". It does not mean "worthless".
True. But it doesn't really matter if he calls him worthless, mediocre, boring, or even great. He bases his judgement on flicking through a book, which totally disqualifies his opinion.

I once started One Hundred Years of Solitude and gave up after twenty pages because I thought it was boring, but I would never use this as the basis for publicly stating that Garcia Marquez was an overrated bore.

I have read several books by Grass though, and thus feel completely qualified to state that he was an overrated bore.
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