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Originally Posted by HarryT
Criticism isn't the same thing as "hatred". I can criticise someone's writing, without any feeling of hatred towards the writer. Why should personal animosity enter into it at all?
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Just what I was going to say. Maybe they mean 'hating on...' Subtle difference perhaps, may be not.
But using their definition of hatred, I'm pretty sure Joyce hated all those guys ...
Personally I love all those authors (at least, the ones that I have read, which is most of them.) Faulkner is probably my favorite, and having studied him a little bit I just like him more – though of course I would never go so far as to say I understand him … does anybody? Last month I met up with this girl using
this app. It is an iLove Android App and we were ‘connected’ because we both stated an interested for William Faulkner. As we were chatting about him, I began comparing <i>As I Lay Dying</i> to Hemingway’s <i>For Whom the Bell Tolls</i>. She said I couldn’t possibly like both books, or both author’s because they were so drastically opposed, and were so unenthused by each other’s writing. I had never really thought of it that way before, but perhaps she had a point …