Le Guin's Potter bashing

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 90604

Another great author joins the ranks of those who don't get the fuss 
about HP. In The Guardian on Monday February 9 Ursula LeGuin wrote:

Question: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin 
can write.' What do you make of this comment in the light of the 
phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your 
opinion of JK Rowling's writing style

Answer: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics 
were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first 
Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, 
and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy 
crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but 
stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically 
rather mean-spirited.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1
144428,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/23hjb

Cheers,

Dumbledad