A Neverending Parade of Stupid
Everyone’s favourite New York Times reviewer, Dave Itzkoff, has done it again.
This, from an allegedly positive review of China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun:
I sometimes wonder how any self-respecting author of speculative fiction can find fulfillment in writing novels for young readers. I suppose J. K. Rowling could give me 1.12 billion reasons in favor of it: get your formula just right and you can enjoy worldwide sales, film and television options, vibrating-toy-broom licensing fees, Chinese-language bootlegs of your work, a kind of limited immortality (L. Frank Baum who?) and — finally — genuine grown-up readers. But where’s the artistic satisfaction? Where’s the dignity?
Yeah. We were really impressed too.
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February 7th, 2008 at 12:20 am
As a fan of China Mieville, Rowling and so many others writing specultive fiction(including myself) I disgusted that someone writing for a world newspaper would write such crap. I do not believe for one minute that Itzkoff even read Mieville- and if he did, it was probably way beyond his critical faculties…..and Im talking about his YA works!!
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