Yeah, I loved pretty much all Eddings wrote, because it’s such simple, light-hearted style of fantasy. Even thinking the Death of the Author (they’re not profiting from the books you already own, and are quite literally dead so nobody suffers or benefits from you owning or reading the books) it leaves such a bad taste in your mouth. Since now every time you read or even think of the books, you remember what pieces of shit the authors were and it taints the whole thing.
I always fear reading up about authors (and musicians, actors… etc.) because so many of them turn out to be such pieces of shit and that ruins everything
Yeah… It sucks. I have some Marion Zimmer-Bradleys books in the shelf that have been unread for years because I learned of the author’s pedophilia when I was in the middle of that series. Really soured the whole thing. At least with Eddings they were caught and punished and didn’t do evil shit for decades afterwards, so you can keep up some hope they became better people in the end…
That’s a sad outcome - of course it is understandable that as a traumatized victim she has a risk to have a warped vision of reality - but holy cow, to blame homosexuality as the root of the problem, that’s losing the plot entirely.
Yeah, I loved pretty much all Eddings wrote, because it’s such simple, light-hearted style of fantasy. Even thinking the Death of the Author (they’re not profiting from the books you already own, and are quite literally dead so nobody suffers or benefits from you owning or reading the books) it leaves such a bad taste in your mouth. Since now every time you read or even think of the books, you remember what pieces of shit the authors were and it taints the whole thing.
I always fear reading up about authors (and musicians, actors… etc.) because so many of them turn out to be such pieces of shit and that ruins everything
I have the Dangerous album from Michael Jackson, shelved for decades without listening, for pretty much the same reason :(
Yeah… It sucks. I have some Marion Zimmer-Bradleys books in the shelf that have been unread for years because I learned of the author’s pedophilia when I was in the middle of that series. Really soured the whole thing. At least with Eddings they were caught and punished and didn’t do evil shit for decades afterwards, so you can keep up some hope they became better people in the end…
I knew about the allegations against MZB, luckily I never got into her books, so it’s not a big loss for me - but just now I got curious and did some reading - Is this article legitimately by MZB’s daughter? https://thembeforeus.com/moira-greyland-i-was-born-into-a-family-of-famous-gay-pagan-authors-in-the-late-sixties/
That’s a sad outcome - of course it is understandable that as a traumatized victim she has a risk to have a warped vision of reality - but holy cow, to blame homosexuality as the root of the problem, that’s losing the plot entirely.
Yikes! That’s even worse than what I knew about the whole ordeal. What a sad outcome indeed… :(