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[identity profile] firiel44.livejournal.com 2007-08-02 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
How sad that he can't enjoy a little fantasy now and then. He almost lost my sympathy altogether with anti-Tolkien ranting, but it's just sad that he can't even enjoy a bit of Narnia without thinking it's endlessly silly.

I will studiously avoid all reviews to not be spoiled. I know it's worth it without reading any silly reviews. Being the newbie librarian, I get review journals well past their original usefulness anyway.

[identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com 2007-08-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, the anti-fantasy rant he went on was off-putting to me as well. I fall in the "having read everything, including Tolstoy and Jane Austen". I read the last two thirds of War and Peace in two days (partly because I had put it off all summer and had a class on immediately coming back from summer vacation, and partly because I couldn't put it down). I definitely have time for fantasy and magic.