There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book takes the reader into a new world of experience; it is an experiment. A bad book, unless the writing is inept, reinforces the intransigent attitude of the reader not to experiment with a new world. Since there are criminals and psychopaths and sociopaths in all my novels they are in a way psychological thrillers. John Franklin Bardin
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What does Raymond Chandler mean by “a good book takes the reader into a new world of experience”? Does he mean that, simply, a good book is one that takes the reader to a new world of experience? Or does he mean something more than that? Is he saying, for example, that a good book is one that helps the reader to expand his or her horizons so as to be able to understand things in a new way? Or does he mean only that a good book helps the reader to understand what life is all about in a new way?

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