'Help'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Well, I'm a couple books behind, and perhaps very dense, but I'd not have read his tea leaves and worked any of that out. Which books do you think it bleeds through in?
Honestly, I don't need them to be saints--just write responsibly (done) and not show their dirty underwear in public (done). They don't have to be the treasurer for QUILTBAG or anything.
I mean, there's nothing for me to be cautious about, I don't think. I enjoy their books until they turn me off them.
just write responsibly (done) and not show their dirty underwear in public (done).
At this point, this is all I am asking for with regards to anyone creating media I enjoy. I don't know if I'll ever be able to read anything by Harlan Ellison again.
Don't tell me about Jay Lake, okay? I really want to continue loving Metatropolis.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to read anything by Harlan Ellison again.
This.
I don't know what I would have done in Connie Willis' place.
ETA: and with that, I went back and read Patrick Nielsen Hayden's comments regarding same, calmer now.
My mom periodically cleans out our childhood books and recently asked me if I wanted the Lloyd Alexanders; I said "yes" without hesitation (my brother got the L'Engles, dammit). She just sent them to me and man, I did not remember there being so many! And yet some are missing! I now have:
Where the eff are The Kestrel and The Beggar Queen? I know we had them. That's my favorite trilogy of his books, somewhat unsurprisingly. I'll have to see if she can find them. Anyway, looking forward to some nostalgic rereading.
The only writers I don't read because of their general unpleasantness are Piers Anthony and Jerry Pournelle. Harlan has always been a jerk, and it's been a very long time since he's written something worth reading.
I have definitely not picked up new authors I might have otherwise read because they've been insane on the internet. Or are connected with people who are insane.
There are advantages to not caring what authors have to say outside the covers of a book.
I have definitely not picked up new authors I might have otherwise read because they've been insane on the internet. Or are connected with people who are insane.
Whoo, yeah. And I am always thankful that Ray Bradbury has come across as a reasonably sane person in all of his interviews.
I usually don't care, but I try to avoid some of the crazier parts of the internet. If an author has irritated me, I do the tiny rebellion of reading the book in a way that doesn't benefit the writer.