[HPforGrownups] Re: Bad Writing?

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 162421

sistermagpie wrote:
>    
>>   Katie writes: I feel that many people on this list are really 
> only interested in tearing the books apart and deriding JKR. The 
> books are not perfect - no book is. No plot is perfect, no writer 
> without weaknesses. However, I really don't understand devoting time 
> and effort thinking about and writing about a writer/book you don't 
> actually like. 
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>>   Not being one of those people, and loving JKR, Harry and the 
> lot, Katie
> 
> 
> Magpie:
> Having come up against this question in every fandom I've ever been 
> in, I'll try to explain.  People enjoy different things from fandom, 
> as you just said. You like discussing theories, by which I assume 
> you mean guessing what's going to happen.  I sometimes like that, 
> but only if it relates to what's already happened. Usually don't 
> care for it--I'll just wait for what the author tells me.  What I 
> like doing with certain books--and not always books I love--is 
> pulling them apart.  Pulling or tearing?  I assume seeing it 
> as "tearing them apart" means that you see destruction in that 
> activity.  
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   Just pulling/tearing canons apart is what
> fans do in my experience. Including me.:-)
> 
> -m

   KJ writes:

      I find that I must agree to a large extent with Eggplant and 
Katie.  While no one objects to picking apart plot, or characterization, 
or style, or anything else, I do object to derision, demeaning remarks, 
and criticism with no redeeming point. I object to describing anyone's 
work as garbage, suitable only for burning or wood-chipping. Considering 
the thoughtful intelligence of 99% of the list, this kind of criticism 
only appears more pointless. I must defend the right of the others in 
wondering why the Hell does he a) continue to read the series, and 
b)continue to post on a list dedicated to the writer and books he hates. 
At the same time, I have to defend his right to express any opinion he 
wants to on this list or any other.  I have the luxury of a delete 
button and use it.

KJ