Please don't take threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks. I like my ego too.

Seriously, though, I agree, the phrasing I used was a little over-wrought itself. My apologies. My point really was that if Pullman believes that Durrell's book was "too rich" to be re-read by him, he should understand that the limitations in Durrell's work that lead him to that conclusion are over-present in his own His Dark Materials.