It’s the type of book that’s a good starting point for people who don’t read a lot.

I read a lot of Sci-fi. Mostly Hard / Military Sci-Fi.

Turns out most people writing Mil Sci-fi are really right leaning in their politics. And some are just batshit crazy....to the point where I kinda don't wanna read their books anymore.

So no I stopped reading up on an Authors background

I do on new and unfamiliar authors.

Most of the books I buy have the author's life chronology listed either in the beginning of the book or at the end. The list has three areas of interest, Date of events in the authors life, Literary context, is a history of other authors books at the same time along with his, and third and last Historical world events of the same year. Yes I'm interested in Authors in the same generation as my great, great, great, grand fathers and what happened in history as time moved up into today. I can see the age of E.A. Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft and the Authors they read that influenced their writing.

I just read it too. If it hadn't been a buddy read, I would have probably DNFd it. The MC was unbelievably stupid and I was just hate reading it from 30% onwards.

Not going read anything else by her because she apparently rips off other popular books and if you dare say it anywhere you get badgered by her rabid fans. Lame behaviour.

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All the damn time!!

If I really like the book, yes.

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The only positive things I have to say about this book is that I got it for free and it was a very quick read.

I hate everything else about this book. Yes, it is selling a very simple "moral". It's so simple in fact that you could condense it down to one of these stickers people put on walls. Like "Live, laugh, love" or "Carpe diem".

King doesn't remember writing the book these days (that may be his age as much as anything), but he recalled it well enough in interviews at the time, just after Cujo was published. Regarding that scene specifically, he relates writing it and shocking himself (King, as you may know, doesn't write detailed outlines for he books, just writes it as he goes) and just sitting there, thinking it over. Eventually, he decided to carry on and see where that plot point took him.

I think it makes the book—the entire thing seems to be a critique of the destruction of the nuclear family and a treatise on karma.

Not usually. If I really enjoy the characters, then knowing about the author makes them seem less real. And if the author is a shit, it takes some of the magic out of the story

Sometimes I wish i could see this book from the peoples point of view who like and enjoy it, because I dont get why its so raved about by people, i will agree its easy to read.

But wasnt for me, i found it very childish in its story telling, feels as deep as a puddle, i went into it after seeing it on some of the best book lists, but just found it meh

If you enjoy it cool, but wasnt for me, i do advise people read it because its definitely a book that alot of people enjoy so they might aswell.

Yes, but it’s not always wise

i mean what necessary to know about them are already on the blurb or in the intro part of books so... even if im really amazed by their writing, i will only search for more books of them, rarely thought of finding more about their bio or sth. Moreover, most books i read of which the content are like really..."surreal"? So i can't even imagine if the authors' life had bearing on the context of those.

For the longest time i thought she was a guy also. Same thing for harper lee. I generally dont look up authors or what they do.

I think that "It starts with us" need to being throw from my home to AN OTHER HOME, because (spoiler) when Lily and Atlas were doing sex, literally Lily spray MILK IN ATLAS'S FACE! Here I scream, and more than 3 houses listen me :')

Not everyone’s American, after all (I’m not and purely based on the name, I assume he is/was?). I’ve vaguely heard the name before but know nothing else - not even a positive/negative impression.

Sometimes, it sort of depends - I just recently read the Mrs Harris series and it was so immersed in British class culture that I had to look up the author because the book blurb said he was American and I wanted to see if I could understand where all that had come from (no apparent connection whatsoever).

Ditto Naomi Novik, reading the Temeraire series and have read the Scholomance, had a quick search as I was sure she must be English but no - deeply American as is her family and her husband. Guess she just does a lot of research.

Beyond having a specific reason like that though I’m not overly bothered to know much more about them - it’s their stories I want

Nowadays, I regret having watched a film as soon as I read "Weinstein" in the end credits.

After learning that Erin Hunter wasn’t a real person in elementary school I have to say I stopped doing this as much as I used to

When they are Nazis, it shows.

😂 OBVIOUSLY!! I become obsessed!! Then I cry because I know I may never ever meet them in real life!!

Oh god I was SO sad (and dumbfounded) after reading about Orson Scott Card. Like how do you write some of the most thought-provoking and awe-inspiring pieces of fiction and then turn into a racist?

Nope. I rather not know about them so that their level of morality don't effect my enjoyment of their story.