Books - What are you reading?

I don't think my post was rude. It didn't come out wrong, for sure. It was prompted by my thinking that to sweep aside such an incredible author with the label 'OK' is exceptional arrogance, especially from a person labelling themself as a writer and academic. Anyway, it's all good and we can agree to disagree - it remains a great deal easier to criticise others' writing than to write oneself.

I'm glad Kat gets what I'm going on about though ;)

This is a bit bonkers. I am perfectly entitled to think he's just 'ok'. I made a throwaway comment saying that I don't much care for a particular writer, in response to someone soliciting opinions on him, on a thread where that's par for the course. I would have been perfectly happy to say why, or to engage with a discussion about his merits or otherwise. I've read a fair bit of his stuff, though not all, by a long shot, and would have been delighted to talk about it, or to hear from someone who had read more. But you had no interest in that. If there is any 'exceptional arrogance' then it lies in the fact that you could not see someone having an opinion with which you disagree without launching a pretty nasty attack.

And I don't 'label myself' anything, for goodness' sake. You've gone on to my profile and used the bit where it asks you to fill in what you do for a living as some how relevant here, which is a bit weird. I never pulled rank, I just said I didn't much like him*. Which I fucking don't!

I fail to see how that's somehow controversial.

But hey, 'it's all good', right?

*though some of his short stories are ok ;)