The View from the Quai Voltaire

Books I hate: All the Harry Potter novels: Firstly, for the hapless "Cockney" (British lower middle class; or, it could be, simply, British sub-literate middle class--In dealing with the profoundly hideous British class-system, we [Thank God Almighty!] class-less Americans often confuse the British middle and lower classes, simply because the British middle classes and their usages are, if anything, uglier than the specifically lower classes beneath them--) dialect that the clueless authoress can't help but write them in, it being her native parlure.  Secondly, for the utter incapacity of the authoress, personally, to imagine or create a fictional world-in-itself or characters (especially male characters) which are not shallow, cardboard projections of her own dull and rather unpleasant personality.