the opposite of bad

A piece of writing is never good … There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before

Joël Dicker – The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

(Although there’s still a lot of more bad still in The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. Poor translation? My difficulty enjoying commercial fiction? Possible drek? Hard to determine at half-way through. Maybe the book will turn around and surprise me.)