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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]metal_dog5
2013-04-29 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Wow. Makes me glad I didn't have a blog when I tried to read Pandora. Or when I tried again a few years later after reading some brilliant fanfic based on the book. I can only imagine what would have happened if I mentioned the fanfic portrayal of the characters was far superior in every way than what's in the book.

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[info]varethane
2013-04-30 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Well, considering she's one of the authors who (IIRC) forbits fanworks from being written about her characters... I'm betting the reaction would be spectacular.

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[info]metal_dog5
2013-05-01 12:57 am UTC (link)
She does forbid fanworks. I reckon I read the fanfic before she made the big FANFIC IS BAD!!!11!! decree - and I think I know why ;)

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2013-05-02 02:13 am UTC (link)
Apparently she's lightened up a little bit on fanfic.

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[info]mrbimble
2013-05-02 06:27 pm UTC (link)
it's the only way she can get readers? good fanfic, the gateway to the original material....

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