I'm surprised by some of the hate on this one.
As slight as the tale was, I don't get the hate.
Veering off topic here, but this is growing into a pet peeve. Why are all discussions reduced to a three-way contrast between "love", "sort of like", and "hate"? Why is it impossible to express any level of dislike for anything on an internet forum without people thinking that you hate it?
No-one who posted a negative review used the words "hate", "loathe", "can't stand". Shwankie said "ugh", and that was the strongest word used against it.
And it matters. You can say "As slight as the tale was, I don't get the hate" and sound reasonable. If you say "As slight as the tale was, I don't get why people disliked it" you sound silly. People can dislike things for all sorts of reasons, but hate is a strong emotion and needs justification. By calling the negative reactions "hate", you are trivializing the people holding them.
So, anyway, just to clarify - I don't like this story. I don't hate it, either. I don't have any emotions whatsoever about it. If there wasn't a forum thread about it for me to read, I'd probably have forgotten all about it by now, a few days after I heard it. That's a sign of a bad story. The few stories out there I really hate, I remember very well.