This dick needs a giant cluesticking. "Hogwarts fans, you're stupid, stupid, stupid"
Oh my God. I hate that guy. Wow. Talk about...I don't even know. Grr.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2005 9:13:10 am PDT #8156 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Susan W. - Jul 13, 2005 9:13:33 am PDT #8157 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Wow, that was a monumentally stupid article. IMO, the worse line of the whole thing was:
I'm sorry you were born too late for J.K. Rowling, but you had your C.S. Lewis and E.B. White and J.R.R. Tolkien. Isn't it a clue that you should be ashamed of reading these books past puberty when the adults who write them are hiding their first names?
Ummm....yeah. Better go clear those children's books like The Elements of Style and Till We Have Faces off my shelves right now.
t rolls eyes forever
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2005 9:15:12 am PDT #8158 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, you should be totally ashamed of reading The Great Gatsby.
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2005 9:17:53 am PDT #8159 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Not to mention T.S. Eliot, E.L. Doctrow, W.H. Auden, etc.
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2005 9:21:30 am PDT #8160 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm also not sure what makes it a strictly children's book. Because the main character is younger?
It was printed alongside this rebuttal.
Maysa - Jul 13, 2005 9:25:18 am PDT #8161 of 10002
He does know that E.B. White and C.S. Lewis wrote lots of stuff for adults as well, doesn't he? Or is he really that stupid?
Anne W. - Jul 13, 2005 9:25:59 am PDT #8162 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Nice rebuttal. Thanks for posting the link, Heather. I'm reminded of something C.S. Lewis once wrote about how after talking to certain academics and other self-professed scholarly types, he would have had no idea that Jane Austen's books were supposed to be funny.
On edit: Why is it that some critics seem to assume that "popular" = "bad"? Or that something has to be complex to be of artistic merit?
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2005 9:28:12 am PDT #8163 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
He also suggested Sesame Street and Teletubbies were only for rich white kids, so I'm guessing yeah, he's that stupid.
Susan W. - Jul 13, 2005 9:29:10 am PDT #8164 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
He does know that E.B. White and C.S. Lewis wrote lots of stuff for adults as well, doesn't he? Or is he really that stupid?
I think he's that stupid. Plus, with the possible exception of The Hobbit, would you really call Tolkien's books children's books? I wouldn't. But what do I know? I just read what I like and don't stress over the ages of the characters or what section of the bookstore it's found in.
Lyra Jane - Jul 13, 2005 9:29:20 am PDT #8165 of 10002
Up with the sun
Joel Stein is a humorist. Also, having seen him on TV, he looks like an enormous dork.
Basically, I wouldn't worry about the opinion of someone who has wet dreams about being Dave Barry.