I agree with you. Criticising someone who's dead is also okay, and criticising someone who's currently well doesn't mean they won't become ill in the future. Maybe you could make a practice of always using the book as the subject of criticism, such as cursing it for being bad rather than making the author the subject of the sentence. That would have a distancing effect between the person who wrote a bad book (who's probably lovely and kind to her friends in real life) and the bad, horrible book.
And they say that any publicity is good publicity... I think analysis of bad books can also actually motivate people to read them just to follow on, or sometimes even attract fans who are interested in deconstruction.
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Date: 2013-07-02 08:02 pm (UTC)And they say that any publicity is good publicity... I think analysis of bad books can also actually motivate people to read them just to follow on, or sometimes even attract fans who are interested in deconstruction.