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<blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5656181" data-attributes="member: 56189"><p>Once you've read one fantasy book, you've read them all.</p><p></p><p>That's why I love GRRM so much. He gave me a fantasy novel that I could really get into without groaning over the same old same old.</p><p></p><p>That and the writing. I read the first couple of pages of a book and decide then and there whether or not I will continue. What grabs me isn't the story, you can't really do that in a few pages. What grabs me is the writing.</p><p></p><p>I think there are far too many writers out there who aren't true writers. They slam out page after page but none of it is really art. Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, these people wrote poetry on the page, not just a spewed bunch of words. In this day and age, anyone with enough will can pump out a novel and call themselves a writer, but it takes genuine skill and a mastery of ones craft to be an artist.</p><p></p><p>This is why I've stopped even trying to find good authors. Everything I pick up is just crap on a page. I can write crap on a page. Why would I want to pay to read something I could write?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kzach, post: 5656181, member: 56189"] Once you've read one fantasy book, you've read them all. That's why I love GRRM so much. He gave me a fantasy novel that I could really get into without groaning over the same old same old. That and the writing. I read the first couple of pages of a book and decide then and there whether or not I will continue. What grabs me isn't the story, you can't really do that in a few pages. What grabs me is the writing. I think there are far too many writers out there who aren't true writers. They slam out page after page but none of it is really art. Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, these people wrote poetry on the page, not just a spewed bunch of words. In this day and age, anyone with enough will can pump out a novel and call themselves a writer, but it takes genuine skill and a mastery of ones craft to be an artist. This is why I've stopped even trying to find good authors. Everything I pick up is just crap on a page. I can write crap on a page. Why would I want to pay to read something I could write? [/QUOTE]
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