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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
It's interesting that, faced with a thread devoted to praising a particular book -- which the OP loves . . .
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I missed that. Please reread the OP.
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you enter the thread as a troll
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Your post gets a bit better as it goes, but this ruined it for me.
Re your mention of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, et. al., these are mostly authors who are, rightly or wrongly, known for personal bigotry. That indeed cannot make their works, which AFAIK do not focus on particular disliked minority groups, bad. Michael Chabon may be perfectly charming face-to-face with his evangelical next door neighbor. Chabon may vote for the same people I do. That doesn't make this particular book any good.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is, in my reading, a morality tale about villainous religious Jews, evangelical Christians, and what they are plotting against Muslims. Others may focus more on it being a fantasy detective mystery. Maybe I'm right, maybe they're right, maybe we are both right. All are descriptions of a novel, not of an author.
EDIT: Am I making the mistake of thinking that just because the villain is a certain religion, that makes the book against that religion? Does this Eisenberg think that if a mystery novel has a physician-murderer, the book is against doctors? No. But if the government of the United States was portrayed in the novel as having been taken over by physicians, maybe the novel would be anti-doctor. That's closer to the situation here.