Besides, if I wanted a hero’s journey, I already had Luke in Star Wars. And that had much better lessons about compassion and fighting against the system with a bunch of weirdos. That’s my kind of story.

Isn't it more productive to separate the author from the books, and criticize the former?

I haven't heard anything about the prose, story structure, and world building being widely held to be mediocre. That may be true for some definition of "widely", but whether that's the case or not, it doesn't really affect my point. (And I'm ignoring all this stuff about "uncontroversially..." and "unassailable on its own terms" - that may be wrong, but again, it doesn't really matter.) What I'm saying is, the post I replied to presented an opinion - that the stories are not very good - as objective fact, and it was incorrect to do so.

Besides, her prose, story structure and world-building are widely and uncontroversially held to be mediocre. It's not incompatible with a lot of people liking them, but an opinion that the books "aren't very good" is not only justifiable but nearly unassailable on its own terms, and merely saying it isn't objective is saying nothing.

You also forgot the Destiny component, which relieved him of responsibility for choosing or working to be a hero.

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