UnderstandingDry4072 t1_j9z9qjd wrote
Reply to comment by Kryptin in Asimov's Foundation Is Bad Literature by Kryptin
So I think what has most people in this thread so hot and bothered is not that you didn't like Asimov, specifically; it's that you leaped immediately to saying that he's a bad writer.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but it's perceived as fairly immature and self-centered to equate "I don't like this" to "it must be bad." Personally, I hate the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and Hemingway, but I'm not gonna say they're bad writers.
It's okay to not like something and just move on, but I guess that wouldn't be very Reddit.
Skeptix_907 t1_j9zdp33 wrote
To be fair, you're strawmanning him. He didn't say Asimov in totality is a bad writer; he said that one of Asimov's books is bad. That's a world of difference.
UnderstandingDry4072 t1_j9zf3mo wrote
Nah, read the rest of the comments, man. They've said Asimov is "hardly a skilled writer" and "Austen isn't a very good writer."
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