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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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	hosta 2013-04-29 05:41 am UTC (link)
	I'm merely stating that eating cheese is one of the things Nazis did, why get so personal? I'm merely stating that using toilets is one of the things Nazis did, why get so personal? It probably makes me a terrible person that I'm having so much fun with this offensively oblivious statement, but....man. Man. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2013-04-29 07:22 am UTC (link)
	I just "love" the passive-aggressiveness. "I'm not comparing you to a Nazi; you're comparing yourself to a Nazi..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hosta 2013-04-29 08:06 am UTC (link)
	Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2013-04-29 07:58 am UTC (link)
	I'm merely stating that breathing is one of the things Nazis did, why get so personal? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hosta 2013-04-29 08:06 am UTC (link)
	I'm merely stating that typing is one of the things Nazis did, why get so personal? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hosta 2013-04-29 08:09 am UTC (link)
	Wait, wait, I've got one better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-04-29 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	I lol'd. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cinnamonical 2013-04-29 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	I too also lol'd. I wish there were a way for this macro to find its way over to the comments without trolling the wank. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lied_ohne_worte 2013-04-29 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	I had roughly the same reaction, so I'm a terrible person too. If only the Nazis had just made craft projects from books they disliked, rather than burning them and then killing the authors, if they got them... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hosta
2013-04-29 11:54 pm UTC (link)

Joking aside, that's why this bothered me so much. There's a difference between burning books and seeking to destroy ideas. One was a symbol of the other, but they're not the same thing.

The casual, cruel obliviousness of equating crafting with burning is gross. Also offensive? The implication that freakin' Anne Rice is an equal to the authors and publishers who saw their work destroyed by the Nazis.

She's the real victim here, you know.

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	puipui 2013-04-30 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Anne Rice is always the real victim here, if you ask Anne Rice. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lied_ohne_worte 2013-04-30 07:18 am UTC (link)
	I for one do find it offensive. But then I'm German, so I deal with the memory and consequences of what happened almost every day, and I grind my teeth at any casual throwing around of "Nazi", including things like "grammar Nazi". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2013-05-02 07:01 am UTC (link)
	And now I'm picturing a bunch of arts-and-crafting Nazis, with their commandant yelling at them every time the collage or whatever doesn't live up to his standards. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_metal_ox 2013-05-02 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	Lesson of the Day: be careful what you Google. (The phrase, if you're wondering, was "Nazi arts and crafts.") (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	visp 2013-05-03 01:20 am UTC (link)
	"Nein! Das teapot does not do justice to the piercing-yet-kindly eyes of der Fuher!" smash "Make it again!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spawn_of_kong 2013-05-05 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	"Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	insanityprelude 2013-05-01 04:15 am UTC (link)
	There's a trope for that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zyna_kat 2013-05-01 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	Why did I click, WHY??? I know better! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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