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Originally Posted by Libertine
Popularity, however, is not a guarantee for art. Consider the old James Bond movies - classics, undoubtedly, and rather entertaining as well, but probably not great art.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the Harry Potter books, and their popularity is well-deserved, but J.K. Rowling is no Shakespeare.
Here's a bit from a blog post I mostly disagree with, but which makes a few decent points nonetheless:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/20..._is_the_p.html
Now, I would strongly disagree with the assertment that Rowling's writing is second-rate, but it gives a good example of a significant weakness in the Harry Potter series. |
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) called A Midsummer Night's Dream "the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life."
Voltaire wrote: "Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada," "Shakespeare is the Corneille of London, but everywhere else he is a great fool..."
It's arguable. I like it.