Bloom: Harry Potter is stupid crap; NYT is "counterculture"

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Tue Jul 11 23:07:20 PDT 2000



>In the first paragraph of his attack on Harry Potter as cliched and
>illiterate, Bloom uses a hackneyed quotation from Hamlet (mangled and
>misunderstood, I'd say) and misuses the word "epiphenomenon." Hmmm.


>C. G. Estabrook

And everything he has to say about English public school stories was sais much better by Orwell, fifty years ago. Yawn.

dd

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