tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post1196223033940364893..comments2024-03-28T01:04:21.897-06:00Comments on Gossamer Obsessions: The Critic's AttitudeAnimeJunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229748454410488167noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-36934020795758287282009-06-02T14:48:26.170-06:002009-06-02T14:48:26.170-06:00Nice post, AnimeJune.
Just for fun, one of the ...Nice post, AnimeJune. <br /><br />Just for fun, one of the most memorable lines I've ever heard from a review was by the famed dramatist and critic George S. Kaufman. In reviewing a play, the actor playing the lead role was named Guido Nadzo. Kaufman's comment on his performance: "Guido Nadzo was Nadzo Guido." Gotta love it.Vorkosigrrlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-40209339450345600252009-05-30T14:22:47.925-06:002009-05-30T14:22:47.925-06:00You're right there - we serve people with our opin...You're right there - we serve people with our opinions, and people trust the critics whose taste is the most like their own.<br /><br />In my particular case, *lol*, I rather liked the book about the young woman who organizes a criminal gang to spring a (wrongly) condemned killer from a London prison, and have told people it's worth spending time on, hahaha.<br /><br />Still, not everyone trusts every critic, just because tastes differ. While the Smart Bitches are fantastic bloggers and bring up interesting news about the romance industry, I don't read too many of their recommendations because we differ on a lot of them.AnimeJunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229748454410488167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-7892459489386124642009-05-30T06:10:43.434-06:002009-05-30T06:10:43.434-06:00Your two "Attitude" essays are excellent, AnimeJun...Your two "Attitude" essays are excellent, AnimeJune, and I have learned my personal lessons from this one.<br /><br />I suggest another important consideration in the role that a critic must perform. The quantity of romance literature that is being published is an enormous, continual, overwhelming flood of pages. In these circumstances, a good critic should help the publishers, editors and readers be more selective and even rejecting. <br /><br />With so much to read, why waste time on novels with preposterous situations (e.g. a young woman organizes a criminal gang to spring a condemned killer from London prison in order to earn money to buy a farm in Virginia?)? <br /><br />With so much to read, why waste time on novels with gratuitously and disgustingly spoiled endings (e.g. <I>Yours Until Dawn</I>)? <br /><br />With so much to read, why waste time on novels that are not romantic but rather are essentially pornographic? <br /><br />Novelists who ground their novels carefully, thoughtfully and artistically in reality deserve to be read. Critics help readers find those deserving novels in the flood of mediocre and bad novels. <br /><br />Critics inform their readers not to waste their time reading shlock and failures when they instead can read the best works in the genre.Mike Sylwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09987402330015664312noreply@blogger.com