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Harold Bloom criticized the decision to award Stephen King with a prestigious literary honor typically reserved for writers he deemed as literary geniuses. Bloom believed that King's work did not merit such recognition and that it diluted the significance of the award. Bloom felt that King's popularity and commercial success did not align with his definition of literary merit.

99.98% of people who haven't read anything of literary merit.

Clarification needed: to read and study or to perform?

{| |- | The Lord of the Rings is considered of great literary merit by many. It was named as the best novel of the century in one survey. The outstanding prose is descriptive and well thought out, bringing a new world to life in the minds of millions of readers around the world. |}