I think there's some of that in the LKH anti-fans, like calling an ex in the middle of the night to tell them how much you don't love them.
o.o
I think it's also trying to make sense of where the books went wrong for us as readers. Anita and her world worked and worked for me and then, quite abruptly it seemed, they really, really didn't. It's hard not to poke the corpse to try and work it out.
I'm down with that, though. I can tell you exactly where and why the books went wrong for me, and where they lost me; I can tell you why they had me up to that point. l can even rant :D.
I have nothing at all against that. Dissecting is what readers often do when things don't work. Poke away; I do, especially when people ask in the store.
But there's a different between that poking (why I hate these books) and the spillover into Why I Hate LKH -- and it's the latter that I see as making hugely personal something that wasn't intended that way.
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Date: 2010-10-12 09:50 pm (UTC)o.o
I think it's also trying to make sense of where the books went wrong for us as readers. Anita and her world worked and worked for me and then, quite abruptly it seemed, they really, really didn't. It's hard not to poke the corpse to try and work it out.
I'm down with that, though. I can tell you exactly where and why the books went wrong for me, and where they lost me; I can tell you why they had me up to that point. l can even rant :D.
I have nothing at all against that. Dissecting is what readers often do when things don't work. Poke away; I do, especially when people ask in the store.
But there's a different between that poking (why I hate these books) and the spillover into Why I Hate LKH -- and it's the latter that I see as making hugely personal something that wasn't intended that way.