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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]keri
2013-04-30 02:51 am UTC (link)
Yeah, the scarcity of books is awful.

But one of the things I've been getting into lately is this gut feeling that our reverence and worship of books-as-objects over the contents is problematic.

Books don't have any inherent meaning until we imbue that meaning. It's the text, the illustrations, which can exist separately that we read meaning into. And, frankly, if you're stuck on the side of the road and have to change a flat, sitting on a nice thick bible or collection of shakespeare is preferable to getting bits of glass and tiny rocks cutting into your legs, if your emergency blanket and towel are in use. Plus, those thin pages are good for lots of other uses...

(This is why I keep a Pelican Complete Shakespeare in my trunk. Not only does it provide reading material that is always useful, but it's a good 8 inches thick so I can use it to prop things up or sit on or whatever. Haven't torn any pages out yet, but I'm not averse to doing so if necessary.)

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[info]sandglass
2013-04-30 04:15 am UTC (link)
Getting a kindle has pretty much destroyed my love for "books-as-objects." I used to dream about having shelves upon shelves of books, maybe even a library, but after falling in love with the kindle, I can't really imagine going out and buying paper books unless they're mostly pictures.

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[info]luxshine
2013-05-01 07:40 pm UTC (link)
Again, for me it's irrational. No matter how much I agree with you all about the rationality of not worshiping books as objects, no matter how much I also love the fact that I can read over the internet or in my Iphone (Kindles are hell way too expensive to ship down here) and how finding extra uses to hardbacks that otherwise you wouldn't read... That doesn't change the fact that I have an irrational horrified response at seeing books getting destroyed and I have always had it since I was six. Why? Because down here? Where I live? Books-as-content are scarse. People DON'T read, people think that Books are just objects that aren't worth their time. In average, people in my country read 3 books a year. So for me, the idea of destroying books is about the object and about the content. That book that you guys say it's impossible to salvage? I would've repaired it, not turned into crafts.

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