“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

September 2, 2015 9:57 AM

Discworld tirade against Terry is a bit of a Pratchett job. [The Guardian]

“If a music critic were to announce that they’d never listened to any of, say, Taylor Swift’s output, but then dismissed it as being utter tripe anyway, decrying the general public’s lack of interest in 19th-century grand opera and vaguely insinuating that the general public were idiots for preferring Swift to Verdi, I have little doubt that this newspaper’s writers, including Jonathan Jones, would be quick to denounce the critic as an utter snob, and rightly so. Is literary criticism subject to different rules?”

In response to a recent article written by Jonathan Jones: 'Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius.' [The Guardian]

From the Jones article:

“It does not matter to me if Terry Pratchett’s final novel is a worthy epitaph or not, or if he wanted it to be pulped by a steamroller. I have never read a single one of his books and I never plan to. Life’s too short. No offence, but Pratchett is so low on my list of books to read before I die that I would have to live a million years before getting round to him. I did flick through a book by him in a shop, to see what the fuss is about, but the prose seemed very ordinary.”

posted by Fizz (2 comments total)

jonathan jones is actually jonathan franzen and i claim my five pounds
posted by Kitteh at 10:02 AM on September 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

In response to a recent article written by Jonathan Jones: 'Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius.'

may thor strike you dead
posted by poffin boffin at 10:04 AM on September 2, 2015