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Cleolinda Jones ([info]cleolinda) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2013-04-28 15:08:00


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Entry tags:godwin alert, person: anne rice

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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[info]badger
2013-04-29 07:04 am UTC (link)
Is it bad that all I can think is it used to be that when Anne Rice put out a new book, you couldn't walk into a bookstore without being confronted with 8000 copies of it, But I've never even heard of this book till now? Of course, I'm not an Anne Rice fan either, but I spend a fair amount of time in bookstores, and this is the first time I've ever heard of it/seen it.

And I agree with the people who pointed out what happens to old/unsold books in libraries and bookstores. You want desecration, I once saw a box for sale on Etsy that the author had cut up a copy of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and randomly pasted sentences in no particular order. Now THAT was upsetting.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2013-04-29 09:17 am UTC (link)
Sounds ~artistic~

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[info]major_dallas
2013-04-29 03:51 pm UTC (link)
Anne Rice is hit or miss with her books, generally when she hits, its pretty good, but when she misses, you can only think to yourself, "Did I truly spend time reading that?!?"

Pandora was definitely a miss...

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[info]perletwo
2013-04-29 11:56 pm UTC (link)
My library sometimes does a contest where they put a (I hope falling apart) book through a shredder, stuff the shreds in an acrylic box, and whoever guesses what book it is wins a prize.

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[info]librarianmouse
2013-04-30 04:47 am UTC (link)
I want to do this so much now.

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[info]smadronia
2013-05-07 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Could be worse, could be this card...
And They Lived Happily Ever After

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[info]cleolinda
2013-05-07 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I do not know how to process the information that just entered my visual cortex.

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[info]smadronia
2013-05-07 09:22 pm UTC (link)
That was sort of the reaction I had when I saw that too. I blame Regretsy for my ability to go "sentences from Anne Frank on things? I know I've seen worse."

Regretsy ruined me.

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[info]badger
2013-05-08 02:34 am UTC (link)
I saw that on Regretsy when they first posted it. Thankfully, I think my mind blocked the horror of it out.

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