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May 21 07 1:18 PM
I ready more or less anything I can get my hands on, but have a preference for fantasy, fairytales (or are those part of fantasy) and action adventure novels. I write mainly fantasy and a bit of childrens lit.
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| is it just me, or were authors so much better back then |
I think published authors were not better or worse, but all the crappy books are forgotten and the good ones have become classics, so 50 or 100 year old books that are being read today probably give an incomplete view of literature at a certain period. (try reading some of the earliest SF, most of it is very bad...)
However, I do think that more people today are writing and trying to get published then there were 50 years ago, so a lot more junk that isn't published is written I think.
Rod