I dunno. It's such a awful thing to have done - to post this kind of reply to a negative review - that it's almost impossible for me not to feel some sympathy.
Even though she's such a dreadful writer, and this "review of reviews" epitomises why she is such a dreadful writer. (Came over here via ide_cyan, btw - hope you don't mind.) She didn't use to be dreadful: but it's been years since I greeted the arrival of a new Anne Rice with pleasure, and indeed years since I started to wonder how she could possibly still be a bestseller. That she chose out of arrogance to become a less good writer than she's capable of being (that is, she used her bestseller status to avoid being edited) is a sin that I find hard to forgive: it's a waste of talent by pride. And the end result, is, indeed, that she's simply not capable even of accepting that some people who read what she writes won't like it.
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Date: 2004-09-22 07:22 am (UTC)Even though she's such a dreadful writer, and this "review of reviews" epitomises why she is such a dreadful writer. (Came over here via