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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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	ekaterinv 2013-04-30 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't think this book was even in a trilogy or something. The person yelling is doing the equivalent of getting angry that someone read Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express before The Mysterious Affair at Styles. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2013-04-30 09:30 pm UTC (link)

Both of which are exponentially better books, which in turn would make for much better decoupage because who wants bunch of crap covered in really bad Anne Rice when they could have art covered in really good Agatha Christie?

(I'd prefer artwork made of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, though, although not with the spoilery bits at the end that might give something away, because I like the look on people's faces when they get to who the murderer is.)

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	ekaterinv 2013-04-30 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Agatha Christie decoupage would rock. But the endings would always have to be left out. Of course, then I'd end up reading the items instead of doing anything else... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2013-04-30 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	God, when I realized, it was like, OH MY GOD. Well-played, Madame Christie. Well-played. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2013-05-01 05:36 am UTC (link)

I got spoiled in advance and I was still impressed, but I have to get all my "WAIT WAIT WHAT?"s vicariously, so each one is precious. SHE IS AMAZING.

I'm also quite fond of the twist ending of Murder at the Vicarage, if only because that was the book I was in the middle of reading when my daughter and I got into a discussion about how there are certain rules to mystery stories so if you're familiar with the genre then it becomes easier to guess the murderer using meta, and I specifically mentioned one particular meta rule that I thought it would be very cool if someone broke and yet very difficult to do well, and then Murder at the Vicarage totally did that exact thing and yet I still didn't see it coming. WELL PLAYED, INDEED.

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	ekaterinv 2013-05-01 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	I love how Agatha Christie can write HELLO IT IS THIS PERSON DUH over and over and it still comes as a surprise most of the time. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2013-05-01 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	I think I have not read Murder at the Vicarage. In fact I'm sure of it. I shall have to remedy that at my next library trip. I've always enjoyed Christie. (I'm actually lousy at guessing murderers in mystery books, despite the fact that these days they're my main reading material, but I still appreciate it when the author pulls a fast one.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2013-05-01 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	THAT WAS SPOILED ON A RECENT PBS DOCUMENTARY OF CHRISTIE AND THANK GOD I'D ALREADY READ IT! Spoiled at length, too, those bastards, to make a point about what a rebel Christie was. I almost got a nosebleed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2013-05-02 06:20 am UTC (link)

That was pretty much how I got spoiled, except it was an online article rather than a documentary. On the one hand, it did immediately vault that book to the top of my to-read list, just based on the "OMG BUT HOW" value alone, but on the other hand, D: D: D: NOOOOOOOOO ;_; etc. I was very sad.

Luckily, much like Murder on the Orient Express, it's still just as brilliant when you know who did it, but still. I WAS VERY SAD. ;_;

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	singe 2013-05-02 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	I'M SAD WITH YOU! Down with the Anti-readers. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ekaterinv 2013-05-03 02:11 am UTC (link)
	WTF?! That is sacrilege! They should be forced to watch Battlefield Earth five times in a row. Or read Pandora, that looks pretty painful too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2013-05-03 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Oog, let's not be total sadists, no matter how much they deserve it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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