..it is entirely possible for me to view the whole Harry Potter business with a certain benign affection, even while agreeing with A.S. Byatt’s “rather negative assessment of the books”:http://www.countercurrents.org/arts-byatt110703.htm (though perhaps I’m biased by the fact that she “recognizes the skill in Terry Pratchett’s work”:http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,,836250,00.html).
But mild affection would never move me to public declarations (well, aside from this), so I can only assume that “Stephen King and John Irving feel something more than this”:http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=37356. What a world we live in.
