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Some critics continue to deride his mammoth tomes as hopelessly pedestrian, with "the formulaic plots and the formulaic prose and the formulaic leap to the top of the best-seller list" (the New York Times ). Most critics grudgingly praise Michener's prolificacy, breezy prose, and extensive research, while gleefully bashing the snobbery of his highbrow bashers.
Reviewers don't quarrel much with the biography's slant, though they almost all deride it as "mean-spirited."
If Time magazine were half the trend-spotter it thinks it is, that's the banner it would run to mark the triumph of Reaganism, transforming the United States into the kind of South American nation we used to deride.
Several recent reviews buck the critical consensus and deride the book, the story of a Confederate deserter, for being too self-consciously novelistic (James Gardner, National Review ). Like "a literary approximation of an already literary idea of reality," says Slate's James Wood.
Sounds like the usual liberal tactic of attempting (desperately) to deride what you can't really disprove.