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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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	taterbird 2013-04-29 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, is Pandora post "Anne Rice has no editor, Anne Rice needs no editor"? If that's the case, than Ms. Articulate didn't do anything to the novel that Anne Rice's editor wouldn't have done. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	major_dallas 2013-04-29 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	yes it was, what confuses me is that Blood and Gold was too and I thought it was bloody brilliant, perhaps I am biased with my Marius fanboyishness... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	thoms 2013-04-30 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Everything after Queen of the Damned is "Anne Rice has no editor, Anne Rice needs no editor." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	msmanna 2013-05-01 04:42 am UTC (link)
	And even though it had an editor, 'Queen of the Damned' was the point at which I swore off reading any more Vampire Chronicles. To be fair, I'm not sure what any editor could've done to fix it, bar gathering up all copies of the manuscript and throwing them into a volcano. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2013-05-01 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	It should have been my cut off, too, but curiosity drove me to read the next one. Whatever it was called. Ugh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-05-01 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	Tale of the Body Thief was actually the first of her books that I read. I was about thirteen, and confused as fuck. Probably because I was thirteen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2013-05-01 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	That's the one. Lestat was growing more and more unlikable anyway but that one really made me hate him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cleolinda
2013-05-01 07:48 pm UTC (link)

See, in addition to having no idea who Claudia or Louis were, I also ended up learning about sex, essentially, from books. Like, when I was seven or eight. Nobody ever bothered to sit me down and explain anything until, like, health class in eighth grade when it was way too late. So I'm twelve or thirteen and reading Tale of the Body Thief and there's a passing reference to a week a human character spent with someone in Brazil and I was like, two... guys? Am I reading that right? How do you... I guess... that's a thing? And thus, I am pretty sure I learned about gay sex from Anne Rice. Dammit.

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	singe 2013-05-01 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	I learned of that 'thing' from a sci-fi book called Titan. Two women! But...but two women?! How? Yeah, no sex ed here either except for my parents warning me that they would kill me if they found out I was having it. Eeeesh! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-05-01 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	This was Alabama in the early 1990s, right as AIDS awareness was going on nationally, and pretty much in the most liberal part of the state, so no one was actually going to say "being gay is bad." They just... didn't talk about it at all. And thus, I was left to the florid mercies of the Vampire Chronicles. ("Huh. I guess Lestat and Louis like each other a lot.") (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2013-05-01 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	And before those two there was Lestat and Nicholas which went swooshing over my head like an eagle. Well, it could have been worse... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-05-01 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	... OHHHHHHH. I may need to read these books again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2013-05-01 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	(I'm kind of joking and I'm kind of not.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2013-05-01 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	I KNOW! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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