Original sentence: " "Yes," he answers, "they have been, and will continue to be for as long as they persevere with Potter." Although this may not be bad in itself, Bloom concedes, he also asks, "Why read, if what you read will not enrich mind or spirit or personality." He observes that "anything goes" when, as now, "public judgment is no better and no worse than what is proclaimed by the ideological cheerleaders who have so destroyed humanistic study." Instead, her work appeals "to millions of reader non-readers because they sense her wistful sincerity, and want to join her world, imaginary or not" in their desire to feed "a vast hunger for unreality." So whereas Rowling's fans may always outnumber her detractors, Bloom asks, "Can more than 35 million book buyers, and their offspring, be wrong.In a more substantive controversy, writers such as Yale professor and literary scholar and critic Harold Bloom have raised pungent critiques of the literary merits of the books themselves.In a widely quoted article in the Wall Street Journal (7/11/2000) Bloom describes Rowling's prose style as "heavy on cliche", a style that "makes no demands on readers