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Title: A valuable lesson
Review: A few months ago, I read an amazing book (BloodAngel, by Justine Musk, if you're interested). After finishing it, I moved on to another book, only to be disappointed. In fact, 95% of the books I've read since have left me feeling let down. Sure, they've got decent plots and interesting characters, but they lack the language, the prose that was so effective in BloodAngel. I had been angsting over this fact, and I would've continued to do so had I not read this sorry excuse for a book.I took decent plots and interesting characters for granted; I assumed that they were inherent to published writing, which (I so naively thought) went through SOME sort of screening process. I now know that, while amazing prose is always a nice touch, a plot and characters would be good enough.That pretty much sums it up - I read one book, and it made everything look awful in comparison; I read this book, and suddenly nothing else seemed quite so bad.
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