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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I hate fiction that is internally inconsistent.
It doesn't really matter what the subject matter is. E.g., historical novels shouldn't have glaring anachronisms.
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But anachronisms does not have to make a book internally inconsistent. It just makes the book a bad history book.
Personally I think that an internally inconsistent book nearly always is very bad but a historical book with anachronisms can often be fun to read and sometimes good.