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Rowling criticised over 'Potter' success
Published Sunday, Mar 14 2010, 03:04 GMT | By Aaron Broverman
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According to PopStar, Toby Young asserted that the author's books are second-rate and that she doesn't deserve to be a billionaire as a consequence.
"A thoroughly undeserved honour," he claimed, before going on to attest that the series is a "bland amalgam of far more interesting work by far more imaginative writers" and that "the plots are feeble and episodic".
He did give the novelist some credit, but said that what little merit there was dried up due to "endless repetition".
Young is an author in his own right; his book is called How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
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