Argh. Thank you for articulating some of the problems I had with him. The constant, constant repetition of "TWILIGHT IS MORMON PROPAGANDA" really bothered me. Frank Miller's "Holy Terror" is propaganda. It's a simplistic, one-sided argument that he made to deliberately make himself look good and "Islamists" to look 100% evil all the time. Meyer, bless her pointy little head, couldn't write a persuasive piece if she tried.
Also, I felt like he gave the later Harry Potter books a huge free pass because he liked them. Part of being a critic is looking beyond your personal love of the product to see the functional and stylistic problems it has! (To be fair, my personal bias is that taking the world of Harry Potter to the YA section invited a lot of unintentional cruelty--like Hermione attacking Ron with the birds, or HELLO HARRY TORTURED A MAN JUST BECAUSE HE SPAT ON McGONOGALL HOW CHIVALROUS)
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Date: 2011-12-11 11:52 pm (UTC)Also, I felt like he gave the later Harry Potter books a huge free pass because he liked them. Part of being a critic is looking beyond your personal love of the product to see the functional and stylistic problems it has! (To be fair, my personal bias is that taking the world of Harry Potter to the YA section invited a lot of unintentional cruelty--like Hermione attacking Ron with the birds, or HELLO HARRY TORTURED A MAN JUST BECAUSE HE SPAT ON McGONOGALL HOW CHIVALROUS)