I don’t know how to explain exactly what I mean, but very often when reading reviews for a popular book, I’ll see opinions like “it’s a good book but it’s not well written”, and it leaves me kind of baffled.
Just because a book doesn’t use advanced and/or poetic language, surely doesn’t mean it’s not well written?
If it’s a matter of preference, fine, but I think it’s short sighted to call a book “badly written” just because it uses “simpler” literary prose. I think a good example are the Harry Potter books. JK Rowling might not be a literary genius, but the books are easily digestible and the “simplistic” language works well with the fast-moving plot.
What do you think?
by lovise466