Epic Pooh by Michael Moorcock.
I like Tolkien and Lewis but would have to admit their shortcomings and why Baum and Nesbit are better writers.
I thought his take on Terry Pratchett was amusing.
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Is it a sign of our dumber times that Lord of the Rings can replace Ulysses as the exemplary book of its century? Some of the writers who most slavishly imitate him seem to be using English as a rather inexpertly-learned second language. So many of them are unbelievably bad that they defy description and are scarcely worth listing individually. Terry Pratchett once remarked that all his readers were called Kevin. He is lucky in that he appears to be the only Terry in fantasy land who is able to write a decent complex sentence.
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