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CronoDAS comments on To like, or not to like? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 14 November 2013 06:52:14PM 1 point [-]

I wonder if "everyone likes Shakespeare" is a product of Shakespeare writing a wider variety of types of stories than many contemporary writers, so that the famous writers can all find at least one work they really like and ignore the ones they don't? For example, two people can both say they like Stephen Spielberg movies, when one is thinking of Jaws and the other is thinking of Lincoln?