I don't think she meant that seriously. She said a lot of things slightly tongue in cheek which were taken out of context.
Fantasy, like any genre, has horrible crap and outstanding works. To hate a genre because one writer spoiled it is unfair and I'm sorry that this happened to you. I doubt that it will affect many lovers of good fantasy though. Many have complained throughout the course of the series that her world building lacks logic and detail, that the rules of her world are whimsical and unclear. Which they are. She may have 'designed' everything in her notebooks, but from the many times she contradicts herself, she seems to have problems remembering just what she said where.
All this, to me, speaks more of a normal woman overwhelmed by all the attention that comes with big money (which went more than a little to her head) than someone deliberately out to subvert.
If anyhing, she's made fantasy more popular, because hardly anyone I know who read the books once, in passing, without the detailed anaylsis we do hereabouts, thinks twice about the things we discuss at length and has fun with the story instead. And if you read it through from beginning to end and aren't waiting for years for the next update, wondering if Snape will ever get treated decently - then it is a nice, fun story with some amazing depth here and there, something that made children like to read, something where good triumphs over bad - and that's it.
I'm not saying that I like it, mind you. It could have become really good. As Hope said: a good editor...
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Date: 2009-07-29 08:22 am (UTC)Fantasy, like any genre, has horrible crap and outstanding works. To hate a genre because one writer spoiled it is unfair and I'm sorry that this happened to you.
I doubt that it will affect many lovers of good fantasy though. Many have complained throughout the course of the series that her world building lacks logic and detail, that the rules of her world are whimsical and unclear. Which they are. She may have 'designed' everything in her notebooks, but from the many times she contradicts herself, she seems to have problems remembering just what she said where.
All this, to me, speaks more of a normal woman overwhelmed by all the attention that comes with big money (which went more than a little to her head) than someone deliberately out to subvert.
If anyhing, she's made fantasy more popular, because hardly anyone I know who read the books once, in passing, without the detailed anaylsis we do hereabouts, thinks twice about the things we discuss at length and has fun with the story instead. And if you read it through from beginning to end and aren't waiting for years for the next update, wondering if Snape will ever get treated decently - then it is a nice, fun story with some amazing depth here and there, something that made children like to read, something where good triumphs over bad - and that's it.
I'm not saying that I like it, mind you. It could have become really good. As Hope said: a good editor...