The Crucible. I read the play a few years ago and I loved it but I will never read it again. The character of Abigail is so well written and I hate her so much that the main emotion I get through reading it was anger. I wanted to throw the book across the room when it ended because I was furious at Abigail and the story as a whole.

Oh, you sweet precious child! I wish I didn't know politics haha. But yeah, Rush was a douche bag of the highest order. Nobody was sad when he passed.

Just googled him and it came up that he’s on the radio. Which I knew for a long time. Just didn’t know what he talks about. I don’t pay attention to radio or the people who do radio. I did find that website that goes into details of what he talked about on the radio. I’m surprised he wasn’t kicked off the radio for things he said.

Nope. Don’t care about them, their life or their position. Just want to enjoy the story.

Why do you read the books you do?

Just because you don’t think they’re intellectual enough doesn’t make people reading them brainless twats. So many more people are reading and I think that is what’s important here.

Oh, I guess that's fair then. It's politics, I guess that's all that needs to be said. You're either on one side or the other.

I don’t know who the guy is let alone why people hate him or why they love him.

Not since I saw James Joyce's loveletters.

Never again.

I mean, if you even have to ask...

The Ill-Made Mute. Wrong ending.

Well, I've helped run an annual 3-day sf/f/horror convention for over 40 years, and attended several World SF Conventions. I've met a fair number of authors, some of them pretty famous. Most are fine, some are or were less so. One came to our con, had an apparent great time, then trashed us later in print, so, he was ridiculous. Another was fine with fans but a PITA for us because he was drunk most of the time. They're humans, as fine or as fucked up as any bunch of humans is. I'll say, Jack and Joe Haldeman were great. Robert Block was fantastic. David Gerrald was a lot of fun and gave one of the best Guest of Honor speeches I've ever heard. Robert Zelazny was terrific.

But, yeah. Orson Scott Card was a shit to me. His wife made him apologize. It was likely just before he went off the rails into zealot territory.

What's wrong with him is he's been preaching hatred for decades.

But reading is not necessarily a passive experience, either. The reader has to be willing to put in the work as well.

I’ve done this, yes

Definitely. I want to know where this stuff has come from and what other works they have and maybe find a pattern

What’s wrong with Rush Limbaugh? People kept telling me he wears cochlear implant and I’m like, “ok.” Me being deaf myself, I guess they figure I know every famous deaf person. 🤷‍♀️🙄

Not really. I tend to only look authors up if I like their book so much that I’m curious if they wrote other book similar to the book I read.

If author’s dead I would be more likely to look them up.

I am really interested in the stories, not their storytellers if that makes sense.

I follow everyone I like on social media and try to go to readings and book signings.

I’ve been doing that for years… and contacted a lot of them via email back in the day… all of them replied :) all were super nice :)

John Varley was first… he asked how many got into sci-fi to begin with, and I wrote to him about how my mom was a massive fan of his and raised my brother and I to be big sci-fi fans etc… he wrote back praising my mom .. she was SO happy when I told her :)

Spoke with several others like Greg Bear etc… all of them were amazing:)

Absolutely. I won't ever be able to return to Mists of Avalon. Not knowing that what's in it isn't supposed to be commentary. It's propaganda.

Can you explain what this means?

Also will add to that list, Piers Anthony and Orson Scott Card.

Also going to expand on u/writingjedi response below, Bradley's daughter claimed that she told her aunt what happened back when she was still a child. When the aunt was deposed during Walter Breen's case, the aunt brought up the daughter's claims about MZB, although the police didn't pursue it further. It's on record that the daughter made those claims years before she later made them public.

Read Fahrenheit 451 and looked up Ray Bradbury and found out that he loved Ayn Rand and said things like this in 1994:

"it works even better because we have political correctness now. Political correctness is the real enemy these days. The black groups want to control our thinking and you can't say certain things. The homosexual groups don’t want you to criticize them. It's thought control and freedom of speech control."

Left a sour taste knowing he'd be another anti-woke hack if he was still around today, despite the fact that the Republicans are the real book burners of today (Ron Desantis).

No. I don't care about the personal lives of famous people and artists. They create a product for me to enjoy. They themselves aren't a product. I don't follow my plumber home to watch him cook dinner and I grant authors and musicians and actors the same space.

Plus, starting down that road, eventually you know what a Kardashian is and I have no interest in that journey.

I admit, if someone is an utter asshole or a pedo I make sure I don't pay for their books, but they need to make the front page before I care.