Comment From A LKH Fangirl

[zgirl714.livejournal.com]

Um. Snotty, much? Jeez. How many best-sellers and devoted fans do you have? Hmmm. Let me guess. None? Good grief. The arrogance of youth is just astonishing. Once you’ve got over a dozen books on international best-seller lists then feel free to critique your heart out. But this is clearly a case of "Those who can, do. But those who can’t, sit around and b*tch about those who do." Ms. Hamilton’s stories remain cutting edge. And if you did a random check of the top 50 books on the NYT List, you’d find typos galore. It’s certainly not limited to laurell K. Hamilton novels. Reading is about pleasuring the mind, not hunting down misplaced punctuation. If it causes an emotional repsonse, then it’s a success. Hyper-focusing and being "nit-picky" is ridiculous. Go write the kind of literary perfection you so obviously expect and then come back and trash talk Ms. Hamilton.

That is the comment from Elizabeth on this post.

Comments

[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

I think this just goes to show that when someone can't think of something smart and/or a good come back to the "negative" reviews they have to hit at the reviewer. Elizabeth just doesn't know how to debate back without hitting below the belt. She can't say anything good about LKH's writing or the characters because they are terrible.

[zgirl714.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It would be different if she tried to make a arguement about the characters and the plot.

[drisoscele.livejournal.com]

It's an awful big and erroneous assumption to assume that just because ones current career goals do not currently include writing fiction for publication that said person is neither qualified or competent of providing an accurate literary analysis of a piece of fiction.

Funny how they never ask for the professional credentials from all the drooling sycophants who offer up nothing but glowing, ass-kissing praise about Hamilton's self-indulgent drivel.

Hyper-focusing and nitpicking is exactly what a good editor does. Being a published name is the only thing keeping Hamilton's current work out of the "slush pile".