tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post5856507033305019608..comments2024-03-29T07:43:55.457-04:00Comments on Moristotle & Co.: Walter Kirn up in the air!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-3261664284541711862010-05-18T14:45:22.702-04:002010-05-18T14:45:22.702-04:00Thanks for your comment. Yes, I too gladly read th...Thanks for your comment. Yes, I too gladly read those four letters, which I reported on May 2, at <a href="http://moristotle.blogspot.com/2010/05/review-readers-unanimous.html" rel="nofollow">http://moristotle.blogspot.com/2010/05/review-readers-unanimous.html</a>.Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-67872293767075351602010-05-18T13:59:01.954-04:002010-05-18T13:59:01.954-04:00I came across your good post after finishing SOLAR...I came across your good post after finishing SOLAR and then going online to see if anyone else was curious about Kirn's so over-the-top hostile review of it (the week after the Times Book Review published Kirn's screed, there were four letters of bewilderment and outrage, etc., so the likes of you and I aren't alone).<br /><br />I like Kirn's work, and he's doing quite well, isn't he? So why does he sound like Ian kicked his dog?<br /><br />Jealousy, clearly, and I like your detective work in finding the smoking-gun phrases. <br /><br />Having been hit hard by an equally hostile critic in a prominent publication when my meager first novel was published, I'm perversely sensitive to this stuff. I just wish lit-crit folks would put their guns down. SOLAR isn't McEwan's best, but I found it cruelly funny. Kirn's behavior (especially his giving away the entire plot, which calls for a critic's license being suspended) was just... cruel.mernitmanhttp://www.livingromcom.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com