Thread: Georgette Heyer - An appreciation by Stephen Fry
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Old 10-06-2021, 07:06 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by hildea View Post
Thanks for linking to this article! I like Heyer's books, and strongly disliked Fry's praise of them -- I've enjoyed writing everything I didn't like about it!

My main impression of this article is that it's immensely snobbish.
The above is why I've gone right off Fry in the last few years.

It sums up his approach to pretty much everything. In love with his own erudition in everything, even when he's actually spectacularly wrong. The UK-based tech info website The Register delights in lampooning him when he pontificates on tech matters, a field in which his precision is in inverse proportion to his pomposity and pretension. I skipped his review of Heyer for that reason - authors I actually like have praised her, I didn't want that tainted by his supercilious elitism.
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