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The fan critic, who often means well but lacks the depth of literary understanding and the critical faculty to produce anything much beyond what is more or less a book review - usually a glowing one.

The ignorant critic, who also often has the best of intentions, but does not understand  fiction well enough to evaluate it correctly.


The lazy critic, who knows perfectly well that he is doing second-rate work, but also know that his peers will be unable to judge its quality, and thus has found an easy way to publish instead of perish.

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Um... okay? 

Not really sure how these comments are relevant, really...

Eric Storm

That doesn't really make much sense, Chief.  After all, his post is talking about critics, not writers.  I very rarely offer a critique of anyone's writing, so it is unlikely he's trying to get a rise out of ME.

Now, he might be trying to get a rise out of you guys...  Or, he might simply be responding to the earlier, VERY dead, conversation that happened on this thread.  I don't know, that's why I reacted like I did.

Eric Storm