Nagaina's AM Eyeroll
Shorter Ron Charles: "I am a sad, soulless little man who has allowed my devotion to all things literary to crush the childish joy I once took in reading. ALSO, HARRY POTTER IS INSUFFICIENTLY INTELLECTUAL ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF TEN SO PUT THAT BOOK DOWN RIGHT NOW, YOU LOWBROW CRETIN."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301730.html
Something to add to the list of things I generally dislike: pointless literary snobbery, particularly snobbery directed at genre fiction. If I never have to sit through another tedious attempt to extract more "meaning" from A Catcher In the Rye during an intensely earnest 300-level English seminar when I would much rather be extracting the meaning from a Michelle West novel ever again it will be too soon. For the record: I am an author of genre fiction and while I find some "modern" fiction tolerable in short, controlled doses, I find the vast majority of that particular "genre" (i.e., "literary" literature as opposed to "literature that people read for reasons other than collegiate credit") to be a particularly pernicious form of pseudo-intellectual wankery.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301730.html
Something to add to the list of things I generally dislike: pointless literary snobbery, particularly snobbery directed at genre fiction. If I never have to sit through another tedious attempt to extract more "meaning" from A Catcher In the Rye during an intensely earnest 300-level English seminar when I would much rather be extracting the meaning from a Michelle West novel ever again it will be too soon. For the record: I am an author of genre fiction and while I find some "modern" fiction tolerable in short, controlled doses, I find the vast majority of that particular "genre" (i.e., "literary" literature as opposed to "literature that people read for reasons other than collegiate credit") to be a particularly pernicious form of pseudo-intellectual wankery.