I don’t know, I read it as “you don’t like my books and I don’t like yours, and that’s fine!”

It’s a great piece: An eloquent reminder that disagreement doesn’t have to mean disrespect.

I got a completely different feeling. I read this as 'we have both been irrevocably shaped by our influences into being entirely different types of writer, thinking the other's have little merit - but we may both have merit'.