Critical Reception
Upon initial publication, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen was a critical success. However, within several years Garner himself had begun to find fault with his debut; in a 1968 interview he referred to it as "a fairly bad book" whilst in 1970 he went further, deriding it as "one of the worst books published in the last twenty years... technically... inept". Writing in 1981, Neil Philip noted that it had become "fashionable to condemn Garner's early work, perhaps because of his own dismissive attitude to it."
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