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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
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.
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Yep, I agree with you there.
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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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History is generally the arbiter of who is or is not a great writer. Will Dickens and Shakespeare be taught in English Literature classes in a hundred years time? I feel pretty confident that they will. Will Pratchett be taught similarly? Time will tell.