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Quote Originally Posted by Imperfectionist View Post
Impressive for a 16 year old, but I just felt a bit meh about the whole thing.
See . . . and I think that's the issue in a nutshell. It shouldn't matter if it's "impressive for a 16 year old" if it is poorly written. Even if a five year old wrote it it wouldn't matter because it's a poorly written.

That's the whole reason the book got popular. Because it was written by a kid.

Had the same book with the same exact words been written by an adult, it would never have been published.
I disagree. I didn't even know how young he was til I bought the thing, I just like dragons and stuff

You're right, though, if he was an adult I wouldn't be quite so kind but he wasn't, and that makes it impressive for someone of his age but not impressive in terms of literature as a whole. Doesn't mean you can't appreciate it at all.