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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's precisely what I'm saying, Geoff. We should all respect the fact that it is conceivable that a book that we don't personally like can be liked by others without having to be insulting about either the book or its author. To label a phenomenal best-seller like the Harry Potter books as "crap" and to suggest that its success is solely down to marketting is to insult the intelligence of millions of people who did (and still do) enjoy reading the series.
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But you described John Ringo's 'Ghost' as "
sick", and "I really don't think I'd want to meet the sort of person who LIKES "Ghost"".
Wasn't that being dismissive of a book's readership, in the same way that you're being critical of here?