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by barrysteve 1000 days ago
Yes, and there's been a drop in quality since then too. The 1800-1940s really saw literature as the high water mark for quality media and it shows.

Finding deeply valuable and high quality books is much rarer in today's crop of authors. The best minds are rarely making the medium of literature their highest good, but are instead chasing dollars and relations with the rich and famous.