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>>8871487

Some specific criticisms aren't inaccurate, but that whole hostility towards any difficult prose is ridiculous.

>At the 1999 National Book Awards ceremony Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say that she had had to puzzle over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was "That, my dear, is called reading." Sorry, my dear Toni, but it's actually called bad writing.

Oh no how dare readers have to think about what they're reading.

Steven Moore writes a cogent argument against this attitude in his book about the novel's history. You can read the whole intro on its Google books preview.