Yes, I've seen that review before - Here's a nice rebuttle of it.
Howard clearly doesn’t like this mode of writing, which is her right, but it seems to me at the least peculiar that she should prosecute the book for not being what it doesn’t want to be in the first place, and then convict it on all counts. There’s more than one mode of fantasy out there, and if JSAMN doesn’t conform to her preferred type, then that’s really not Clarke’s fault, nor does it reflect on the book itself so much as on the lack of sympathy between the book and a particular kind of reader.
Which of course is exactly what I was saying - I was disappointed she didn't write the book I would have liked more, but that doesn't make it a bad work of fiction. Just one that will never be among my favorites.
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Date: 2004-12-29 08:08 pm (UTC)Howard clearly doesn’t like this mode of writing, which is her right, but it seems to me at the least peculiar that she should prosecute the book for not being what it doesn’t want to be in the first place, and then convict it on all counts. There’s more than one mode of fantasy out there, and if JSAMN doesn’t conform to her preferred type, then that’s really not Clarke’s fault, nor does it reflect on the book itself so much as on the lack of sympathy between the book and a particular kind of reader.
Which of course is exactly what I was saying - I was disappointed she didn't write the book I would have liked more, but that doesn't make it a bad work of fiction. Just one that will never be among my favorites.