Finding "A good book"

 What with spelling, grammar and limited usage programs for computers, the world is seeing far too many "writers". Finding a good book is like finding a needle in a haystack. If you do, you feel enormously privileged. Part of the trouble, is that almost anyone can self-publish a book and stick it on line to sell. They go to the cost of developing a cover and type and so on.  Most of these books are not edited for what filters writing art from hack plonk. Oftentimes, people read a book and say to themselves, hey I can do that. It's a bit like those who view paintings in a modern art gallery of The Greats and tell themselves the same thing. They go home, buy a mess of paints, slap it on canvas, and often, to the ignorant, sell it. And that's okay. Why? It's okay because only those who know how long it takes to become a true artist are too busy making real art, to criticize or care. True critics of art know the difference. With the overnight writer who "reads a lot" and attends the odd author speaking event or workshop to become his/her own personal success, he or she doesn't know the difference. You know what "bliss" is. Once this amateur writer gets past the housekeeping of manuscript, they know not of the wiles of language in developing a style that is true art. Some writers are born with it; others have to work very hard at it. Learning to toss out one's bad language habits is not a job that can be done alone. None see their own faces and certainly do not see their bad language habits. Night school teachers of Creative Writing can be both dangerous or a boon. It works either way. Some CTs teach cute little tricks of writing seemingly to make it more palatable to the reader. These "tricks" are soon found out.  Others might  advise buying books on how to write: crime, detective, genealogy, travelogues. In short, Formula Writing.  I had a friend who made a very good living selling four romance novels a year until she and her fellows got together to write a  book on their genre and hold large conferences on romance writing.  Now, she is into sci fi. I have not yet been able to get beyond the first chapter of any her "books". Sorry. She has the ideas but her style is dull and trite and there is nothing about  her books that stimulate the imagination or tickle the curiosity or feed the brain.  The language is that of a sixth grade kid and the plots plod mercilessly on to The End.  But they sell like hot cakes. I have  read of the worlds very best authors and taken the usual university classics courses that some hated that others as well as I, loved. You become kind of fussy about what you read and it isn't always Balzac. For example, I am reading a book by a brand new author and the writing style would shame the best. It is art as well as tale. The bottom line is, a "good book" is the solely one you enjoy reading most. Nothing more.