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Originally Posted by crich70
I'd say an author is just like any other artist in that no one is likely to see exactly the same thing in any one piece of their work. For example I never could get the hang of Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" but I'm sure there are those who have loved it. I enjoy Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov but I'm sure that there are those who don't care for their works too. It's all very personalized from one person to another as to who is a great author and who isn't.
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Asimov and Bradbury are, for me, examples of the phenomenon that maddz mentioned earlier of tastes changing with time. When I was a teenager I loved Asimov and thought that Bradbury was horribly pretentious. Now, 40 odd years later, I find Asimov shallow and uninteresting, with 2-dimensional characters, and I love Bradbury.