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Originally Posted by Raphi'Elohim
A great many older books ('classics') are much overpraised, but it took me a long time to figure out that it was the books which were lousy, and not my taste.
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You state that as if it's a fact (...it was the books which were lousy, and not my taste). Can you back that up with specific examples? Would a modern author like James Patterson be better than classic authors like Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett?