Larry Niven, who has written some smashing stuff, in the course of "Inferno" a great update on Dante's epic, went for the jugular in criticising Kurt Vonnegut's style of writing.
It leaves a bad taste. No matter the rights or wrongs of the criticism ( and he was way wrong ) it seems so mean, so demeaning. It shouldn't matter that you disapprove of someone else performance; leave that judgement to critics and the buying public. Make your own stuff shine and don't try to dim your contemporaries.
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It leaves a bad taste. No matter the rights or wrongs of the criticism ( and he was way wrong ) it seems so mean, so demeaning. It shouldn't matter that you disapprove of someone else performance; leave that judgement to critics and the buying public. Make your own stuff shine and don't try to dim your contemporaries.
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