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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Have you seen the best seller lists from the last ten years? Its like a countdown in average IQ of the reader, and this isn't a knock on genre fiction, I happen to love genre fiction, but most of what is published by the majors is very weak.
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You are confusing apples and oranges. To be a bestseller a book does not have to be well-written, interesting, well-edited, well-published, or well- anything. Being on a bestseller list simply means that more people bought this book than bought another book.
In addition, you confuse crap and crap. That is, what you consider crap, someone else considers a masterpiece, whereas what someone else considers a masterpiece, you consider crap. I happen not to think very much of Shakespeare; I consider his writing better than other writing from his period of time but not particularly great. However, many people consider Shakespeare to be the greatest author of all time.
I happen to think that one of Sinclair Lewis' greatest books was
It Can't Happen Here. Others think
Main Street and
Babbitt are far superior. I think Joyce's
Ulysses and Tolstoy's
War and Peace are two of the worst pieces of writing of the 19th and 20th centuries, yet others consider them masterpieces.
Crap is in the eye of the beholder or in the hand of the judger.