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Mel Mudkiper posted:I'm not the biggest fan of The Road but if you are going to wholly discount the role of craft in its popularity you are giving the book a tremendously pedestrian reading. the road is "just" typical post-apocalyptic fiction compared to Blindness though.
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true, I was just splitting hairs
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Liquid Communism posted:So your contention is that it has nothing to do with quality, but rather is simply marketing choices? 
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Liquid Communism posted:I fully admit that I am bored to tears by writing for the sake of wordplay if it is not in service to a compelling narrative. The impression that the author has decided to self-consciously attempt to impress the audience by beating them liberally about the head with a thesaurus is not something I look for in literature. I think everyone agrees that China Mieville writes pulpy genre fiction
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