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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3272076" data-attributes="member: 2205">They're decent.  They'll be forgotten a few years after their last book is published, but they do the job.  I'm not trying to say that they're good, because I certainly don't believe that, but your post smacks of bashing something just because it's popular, which I think is a failing that we as "geek culture" indulge in far to often.Who gives him flak for that?  Nobody here in this thread, for sure.  I've never heard that as a problem with his writing either.And although Clark Ashton Smith was a consumately talented writer, it's not hard to pick a bone or two with the writing styles of REH or HPL either.  HPL in particular got (and still gets) a lot of flak for his overblown purple prose, and REH for his over-reliance on cliched turns of phrases ("mighty thews", anyone?) and awkward writing.Both are justifiably famous today because they had some other strengths that make their work very enjoyable, but neither is really known as a good writer.</blockquote>