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Decoupaging the text from the wrong perspective?
A blogger buys a used, beat-up copy of Anne Rice's Pandora, ends up not liking it, and decides to get crafty with it. (Well, she also says, "Don’t be mad at me, even if Pandora really is one of the worst Anne Rice novels then it’s still better written than Twilight. Just not by as much as you think.")

Anne Rice finds out.

Anne Rice links to the blog on her Facebook.

You know what happens next.

HOW DARE YOU EVEN COMPARE SHITTY ASS STEPHANIE MEYER TO THE QUALITY WORK THAT IS ANNE RICE HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU FUCKING HAG, I HOPE YOU GET HERPES

INSANE. To destroy a book like that is honestly the most disrespectful, idiotic thing anyone could ever do. An opinion is an opinion, but to do that… loved the rich descriptive narrative and historical context and character development (the other reason I read them).

Disgraceful.

This review is garbage. If you get this emotional then you are not reviewing a book, you are having a mental breakdown. I am left wondering not what is not right about the novel by Anne Rice, but what is mentally wrong with the [next comment] Person who wrote this tripe of a review.

“I couldn’t simply write my opinion I had to be a destructive little shit aren’t i awesome?”

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - GODWIN'S LAW:

"Jose": My dear: Even if you dont like a book i dont get why you have to destroy it, Nazi memories perhaps?

Miss Articulate, the OP: The book was dying anyway, it would have been thrown away if I’d given it to a charity shop and I clearly underestimated the offense people would take. Relating it to Nazi’s is incredibly disrespectful to what people went through during WW2, including my own family so please don’t throw that around. Thanks for the comment.

Jose: It’s merely stating that destroying books is one of the things Nazis did, why get so personal? I respected your apology for offence caused, but that is yet another petty, attention-seeking remark. Did anyone refer to the other horrors the Nazis did? No. Therefore your response is irrelevant.

And there's so much more where that came from.

ETA from sandglass: "The Facebook link itself is worth looking at, too. Rice is replying to comments as well."

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	bienegold 2013-04-29 12:15 am UTC (link)
	I've seen some truly amazing and beautiful book art, but there's always this niggling horror no matter how great it is. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-04-29 12:26 am UTC (link)
	I get kind of itchy when it's a vintage book and there's no telling how few of them there are left. The rest of the time, I have that irrational sense of unease too, but yeah, mass-produced books. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	luxshine 2013-04-29 02:13 am UTC (link)
	This. I know it's mass produced, I know I shouldn't feel bad but... it just happens. Let's call it an irrational reaction and leave it at that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-04-29 03:53 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I totally get it. I feel it even when I'm like, "That is a really cute purse made out of a hardback currently in print." (Reply to this)(Parent)

lied_ohne_worte
2013-04-29 10:49 pm UTC (link)

I come from a household of book collectors (my parents were at an estimated 14,000 when they moved into their current house ten years ago and haven't stopped buying or being given new ones), so I do understand how you feel. Although I don't feel that strongly about books by English or American publishing houses than about ones from my country, because the paper in the English-language ones is usually so very bad that I don't expect them to outlive me.

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phosfate
2013-04-29 02:29 pm UTC (link)

A lot of those vintage books that are killed for their parts are done so because that's all they're good for. The cover is pretty. The color illustrations are super neat. The binding is a rotting mess and the text pages are already leaving the book on their own. Using the pictures as prints and re-using the boards as a purse are an act of preservation.

Vintage absolutely does not equal rare.

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	cleolinda 2013-04-29 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, absolutely. There's no telling how many copies are left, but that doesn't mean the copy in question was rare, or good for anything else, either. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	white_tean 2013-04-30 06:37 am UTC (link)
	Agreed. If there is any doubt, it's not terribly difficult to digitize it before you destroy it. And I just say that because I use a lot of obscure old books. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tunxeh 2013-04-29 09:26 am UTC (link)
	Now I'm tempted to turn Use Of Weapons into a chair for a double dose of horror. Good thing I know nothing of furniture craft, I suppose. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	visp 2013-05-02 06:53 am UTC (link)
	It'd be a pretty small chair. Or you could get less specific and just make a weapon out of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	atropos_lee 2013-05-02 10:38 am UTC (link)
	I am so doing this! (I have a damaged copy already - Its one of those books I buy multiple copies of just to give away) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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