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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1906176" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>Well, I guess it depends on what you call the Intellectual Elite. Harold Bloom? See, here you and I part ways cause if Dr. Bloom's hailing something as great, in my experience it usually is. On the other hand, there's the late Jacques Derrida. I don't know how you'd even be able to tell if Mr. Derrida was approving or disapproving of something, anyway, so I guess it probably doesn't matter.</p><p></p><p>I like lots of writers. ERB is certainly gifted, and <em>A Princess of Mars</em> is great fun book. But then so is <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>, and so is <em>The Cinnamon Peeler's Wife</em>, and so is <em>Death in the Afternoon</em>, and so is <em>The House at Pooh Corner</em>.</p><p></p><p>Rejecting ANYTHING sight unseen is a bad idea. Read stuff and decide if you like it. Don't worry if the prose is flowery or not. Do you like it? Do other people? If you find people's opinions are different than your own, find out why. Could be you'll discover something in that "flowery prose" that speaks to you, if only somebody will point it out to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1906176, member: 812"] Well, I guess it depends on what you call the Intellectual Elite. Harold Bloom? See, here you and I part ways cause if Dr. Bloom's hailing something as great, in my experience it usually is. On the other hand, there's the late Jacques Derrida. I don't know how you'd even be able to tell if Mr. Derrida was approving or disapproving of something, anyway, so I guess it probably doesn't matter. I like lots of writers. ERB is certainly gifted, and [i]A Princess of Mars[/i] is great fun book. But then so is [i]The Unbearable Lightness of Being[/i], and so is [i]The Cinnamon Peeler's Wife[/i], and so is [i]Death in the Afternoon[/i], and so is [i]The House at Pooh Corner[/i]. Rejecting ANYTHING sight unseen is a bad idea. Read stuff and decide if you like it. Don't worry if the prose is flowery or not. Do you like it? Do other people? If you find people's opinions are different than your own, find out why. Could be you'll discover something in that "flowery prose" that speaks to you, if only somebody will point it out to you. [/QUOTE]
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