Reading

From the archives of Jane Galt here is a post where Megan Mcardle takes certain critic of LOTR to task. The post is worth reading in its entirety, but the money quote is the concluding paragraph,

 

Little wonder that so few of them evinced any genuine love of books or words -- they were far too busy trying to figure out what books they should like, to ever discover which ones they did. Saying that you're not allowed to like Tolkien, or like Tolkien better than other authors, because he doesn't add up well on the hierarchy of literary traits that Soskis has assigned is no better than declaring that you like a writer merely because he does