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How is it that I can do a review of a book - almost any book - here, on Amazon, or on forums and I get a reasoned discussion or no response at all - BUT if I dare, in threads called "What did you think of The Deathly Hallows?" dotted here and there on the net - I give my honest opinion and say why I thought the last two books sucked - I get people falling over dead in shock that I could be so blasphemous!

Why is JKR so sacrosanct? Why is it so so so WRONG to criticise her? I get this sort of response: "When you think you can do better, then come back and criticise [insert insult here]"

Ok - perhaps I couldn't do better - I have no ambitions to write a huge complicated children's saga.

But. I couldn't possibly EVER in my LIFE write better than, for example, J D Salinger or Radcliffe, or Hemingway - but if I were to write a critique of their work, or state that I didn't like any of their books, or critique just about anyone in the world, I wouldn't get this rabid defensive claptrap for daring to say that the Emperor might not have as many clothes on as the rest of the fanbase think he has. And since when did one have to be a writer to have the right to criticise ANYWAY?

I'm getting a little tired of GOD!Jo, frankly.