/lit/ - Literature

Do you decide your opinion of a novel based on the author's ideological leanings?

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J. G. Keely's blog 'Stars, Beetles and Fools' (2012-2015)
http://starsbeetlesandfools.blogspot.com

>makes wolfetrannies seethe and cope for all eternity
Kneel

He's the best literary critic of his generation.

>BTFOs Tolkien
>BTFOs Wolfe
Is there anything this CHAD critic can't do?

>Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
>The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Sword of Welleran and Others by Lord Dunsany
>Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner
>The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
>Puck of Pook's Hill and Tales of Horror and Fantasy by Rudyard Kipling
>Gloriana by Michael Moorcock
>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
>Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar series
>Orlando by Virginia Woolf
>Conan The Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
>M. John Harrison's Viriconium Series
>The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
>Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
>Jack Vance's Lyonesse
>Ursula K. Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea and Orsinian Tales
>Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirlees
>Perdido Street Station and The Scar by China Mieville
>American Gods and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Thoughts?

This is what he has said on the more known stuff:
>Robert Jordan: Wheel of Time (aimless, bland rewrite of Tolkien)
>C.S. Lewis: the Narnia series (erratic, condescending, flat characters)
>George R.R. Martin: Game of Thrones (lackluster writing, poorly-structured, full of unimportant characters, never goes anywhere)
>J.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter series (some interesting characters, but the plotting is needlessly drawn out and chaotic, author uses magic to cover plot holes, the world doesn't make sense, the conclusion is sudden and convenient)
>J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (an impressive intellectual exercise, but overall stodgy, unromantic, and convoluted)
>Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun (the few interesting ideas present are not explored, story centers on a narrator who is both unpleasant and dull, arbitrary magic solves plot conflicts)

>>20312652

There will never be another critic as insightful as him. We need him now more than ever since people lionize critics now who all look like sophists compared to him.

What the fuck was his problem?

2021... I am forgotten

This guy is a legend.

It's the series that J.G. Keely drools over at Goodreads.

Keely is peak early 2010 pseud kino

What the fuck is his problem?