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Author: Solandra

Aug 9th 2007 at 2:10:47 PM

So the tropes mentioned here are:
1. Popular works are automatically labeled as good, even before the labelers have actually ''seen'' it.  (QualityByMajorityVote?)
2. Critics dismiss a popular work because they automatically assume that non-critics are the LowestCommonDenominator.  (ThePublicOnlyLikesLightReading?)
3. Inverse of the above:  People dismiss a critically-acclaimed work because they automatically assume that it has to be boring, 300 pages long, and full of ennui for the highbrow critics to like it.  (CriticsOnlyLikeEnnui?)
4. A work becomes so popular and hyped that the people who would have labeled it as "pretty good, but not great" if it hadn't been so praised that they become sick of it and make their criticism just as vocal as the praise.  (PopularityInducedBacklash?)

Did I miss any?  (Oh, and my "nitpick" with ''Brave New World'' wasn't the exospeak:  it was the satire that seemed to be delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer at times:  "People used to birth their children and ''actually take care of them in houses!''  Oh the horror!  The ''shock!''  Thank ''Ford'' we're not like that now!"  That might have been the point, but still...)