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lowkey13
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Judged as literature, yeah, they're pretty damn bad.
Fortunately, I don't think Salvatore was aiming for "literature" so much as "unabashedly entertaining". So saying he doesn't stack up against, say, Steinbeck is to miss the point, much like saying a "Fast & Furious" movie doesn't stack up against "Citizen Kane".
These types of books continue to get published all the time- you may just not be familiar with non-genre works.
And I explained why *I* don't like Salvatore's Drizzt series. I don't think anyone would argue that it is great literature (ahem, "Harvard reading list"), and I don't think it's very good genre writing either. It's competent IP-writing (you know- someone churning out someone else's intellectual property).
Fair enough- but I'm somewhat surprised that you'd think that those books wouldn't get published, then.
He's only using someone else's IP in the sense that ... someone else owns the IP? /rimshot.