But a firm grasp on love and compassion and self-sacrifice...
I'd be okay with it if that part were even true or done well, but the man Meg and her siblings have to learn to love is someone whose primary sin is being mean to smart people. Not that I'm board with being mean to smart people, we should be nice to everybody yadda yadda, but in the L'Engle universe that is the sickest, most twisted sin a person can commit. It comes up in all her books. And I just can't get into a world view in which smart people are so special, and so awesome, that it takes miracle-level superpowers to forgive someone who doesn't understand that.
She's also one of the most classist YA novelists I've ever read.
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I'd be okay with it if that part were even true or done well, but the man Meg and her siblings have to learn to love is someone whose primary sin is being mean to smart people. Not that I'm board with being mean to smart people, we should be nice to everybody yadda yadda, but in the L'Engle universe that is the sickest, most twisted sin a person can commit. It comes up in all her books. And I just can't get into a world view in which smart people are so special, and so awesome, that it takes miracle-level superpowers to forgive someone who doesn't understand that.
She's also one of the most classist YA novelists I've ever read.