Dumb people are dumb.

At this point, I regard Diana Gabaldon's books as somewhere between a guilty pleasure and force of habit. IMHO, her writing has grown notably more self-indulgent as her doorstopper series continues (and/or her editors have stopped editing), and her recentish meltdown about fanfic didn't improve my opinion. I doubt very much that I'm going to buy her new graphic novel, The Exile, although I may browse through it at a bookstore-- it's essentially a partial retelling of her first book, switching out of the original tight 1st-person narrative toward other characters' POVs.

However, I'm kinda disgusted by the tone of many negative reviews it's collecting on Amazon, which can be summarized as follows:

1.) "How were we supposed to know that a 'graphic novel' would turn out to be some dumb cartoon book?" No comment.( Read more... )