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"It is the refuge of barren authors, only, to crowd their fictions with so great a number of events, as to suffer no one of them to sink into the reader's mind. It is the province of true genius to develop events, to discover their capabilities, to ascertain the different passions and sentiments with which they are fraught, and to diversify them with incidents; that give reality to the picture, and take a hold upon the mind of a reader of taste, from which they can never be loosened."
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That Gibson fellow sure took the words out of my mouth.
In my own opinion, a novel (or series) should be a good balance of plot, environment, characters and prose; all of these aspects should be believable (prose included) and all should exhibit a variety to maintain interest in the process of reading.