The author of this piece isn't saying "this is awful" to tell people who like it that it's awful. (RP1 is awful, though.) The questions he's raising with the b

The author of this piece isn't saying "this is awful" to tell people who like it that it's awful. (RP1 is awful, though.) The questions he's raising with the book as a springboard have to do with "fandom" in general and how and why it exists as it is. And what's wrong with it. And while I think this author is pretty self-indulgent in the way he writes, too, I think the point at the heart of it is a good one--'cause there is a lot wrong with it.