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Originally Posted by dig420
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.
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I like it as well (bought the final part 5 minutes after it came out, only thing I did in between reading was sleeping).
My point wasn't that the critic didn't like it, though - he's a pompous twat - but that this particular criticism of his is somewhat valid. Rowling does have a tendency to use somewhat clichéd phrases rather often.
On the other hand, of course, she's an absolute master of setting atmospheres and her wit is often absolutely brilliant.