Don't tell me about Jay Lake, okay? I really want to continue loving Metatropolis.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Jessica - Feb 15, 2012 3:11:32 pm PST #17805 of 28261
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
hippocampus - Feb 15, 2012 3:15:45 pm PST #17806 of 28261
not your mom's socks.
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.
smonster - Feb 15, 2012 3:20:07 pm PST #17807 of 28261
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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:
- The Illyrian Adventure (which I used to pronounce "IL-y-RY-an""
- The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
- The Wizard in the Tree
- The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
- The Town Cats and Other Tales
- The Foundling and Other Tales
- Westmark
- The Chronicles of Prydain
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.
Ginger - Feb 15, 2012 3:39:19 pm PST #17808 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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.
Dana - Feb 15, 2012 3:42:58 pm PST #17809 of 28261
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Connie Neil - Feb 15, 2012 3:44:14 pm PST #17810 of 28261
brillig
There are advantages to not caring what authors have to say outside the covers of a book.
Atropa - Feb 15, 2012 3:45:06 pm PST #17811 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Ginger - Feb 15, 2012 3:47:42 pm PST #17812 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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.
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2012 4:01:13 pm PST #17813 of 28261
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not like Scott Adams has anything worth saying, or that Orson Scott Card seems to have said anything newly interesting in decades, but there's just no way I can pretend I don't know and just pay attention only to their work. My brain doesn't shut off that way.
Plus, there's also the question of contributing to their personal coffers. I do watch where my money goes.
But, again, I don't presume to think I'm some true arbiter of character and that people have to be in any way exception to be worthy of my dollar. Just--be sensible enough in public, and we're cool.
Jessica - Feb 15, 2012 5:12:22 pm PST #17814 of 28261
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
OSC's writing has declined in almost perfect proportion to how much I like him as a human being, so it's not been a hardship giving up buying his new books. But it's also near impossible for me to reread Ender's Game and pretend I don't know about the character assassination he inflicts upon Petra in the Shadow books. (Ptui, may we never speak of them again.)