And a post by rpeate

[conuly]

Because I don't want to retype anything, I'm linking directly to my reply.

While I disagree with him, his view on criticizing people seems thought out, so I thought I'd link to it here to see what other people say. Say nicely, I mean, I did promise to be respectful and all.

And I have a question, which I didn't think to ask him directly: How does one know if something is "great"? How can you say you recognize greatness if you don't define greatness?

I don't define it at all, so I don't have this problem, do I? I even refer to Alexander the Pretty Good.

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This is why I don't really have an opinion yet... this is supposed to be one story told in 7 books, and I am waiting until I have read all 7 to say how good they are. But book 5 was sloppy. It was just sloppy. I am hoping book 6 will be a significant improvement. I felt that book 4 was done quite well, and it had a lot of potential for interesting development from it. But regardless, I want to see how book seven is, so I can see if the things that seem really poorly done are actually somehow justified or potentially clever. I doubt it, and book 5 is still weak in its own right, but I will wait to see.