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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1847031" data-attributes="member: 812">Those are perfectly valid points -- and there's plenty of stuff I liked once that doesn't do it for me now -- and I haven't reviewed the writing in those books in a long time.To be honest, I suspect it's somewhat purple, somewhat overwrought, and somewhat cliched. But it did the job and I'm not sure that isn't the only quality that counts in this case.I DIDN'T care for Fighting Fantasy, and I still think that computer books like The C Programming Language are great, great books. Not liking the C book is like not liking Strunk and White -- they're classics.Wow, can I ever derail a conversation.I'd love to read the old books over again, but in a sense I don't need to, because I know the effect they had -- and that's all the proof I need that EGG did the job he needed to do with his words. If the prose had been crisper, more polished, would I have loved the game more? Or less?All I know is, I loved it a lot. And still do.</blockquote>