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A slew of best sellers prompted publishers to flood the market with mediocre mysteries--now readers think twice before buying.
It is probably a characteristic of humanity's eternal upward struggle that good enough is never good enough, and neutral terms like ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, run-of-the-mill , and indifferent tend to take on negative connotations.
In reality, it takes more work and more character for poor student "X" to finish in the top ten percent of his or her public school class and obtain a mediocre SAT score than it does for rich kid "Y" to finish in the bottom half of his private school class and score slightly higher on the SAT.
A 566 verbal would not have gotten you into the Yale Class of 1968, especially with mediocre prep-school grades, if you weren't also the son-and grandson, for good measure-of a Yale alumnus.
A mediocre mystery, too: It never approaches the ingenuity of Thomas Harris, still the maestro of forensic porn.