in the way that Bob Dylan is a "good-bad" singer, who are "good-bad" writers? Are people whose prose has notable deficiencies — Lovecraft and Dick are two obvious examples — great in spite of their writing or does their....idiosyncratic....style productively work with their ideas
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Couldn't agree more. His ideas dictate the style. This was very much different from the other members of the 19th century Russian literature canon.
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AKA most idiosyncratic literary Mount Rushmore ever.
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Robert Crumb. Shakespeare.
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Asimov for sure. Great ideas, but not good at the hard scifi thing or the relateable scifi either.
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Every Asimov story is a puzzle box more than a proper story.
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Dreiser is axiomatically a good bad writer.
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In a lot of ways he's the best example. Just terrible on a sentence by sentence basis but with real power cumulatively.
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Constance Garnett is a good writer, though.
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