This isn't an great example of a critic going too far, but on a small scale it annoys me. Meghan O'Rourke, reviewing Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel, makes this one comment:
and that proves to be a source, for me, of many of the book's more contrived moments (e.g, when the grandmother despairingly asks herself over and over "Why does anyone ever make love?")
I don't want to discuss the merits of human sexuality. What concerns me is a critic allowing her personal views to override her duty as a objective reviewer.
I don't find the above contrived at all; but then, that's my personal view.
Posted by Bobby Farouk at March 31, 2005 12:58 PM