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bardiphouka) wrote2005-06-30 09:43 am
bardiphouka) wrote2005-06-30 09:43 am
Pounding OSC
Where does one draw the line between writer and writing? A case in point would be Orson Scott Card. As a writer I have always found him a bit uneven. As a person I find many of his views,hmm..reprehensible to say the least. Sometimes those views seep into his writing and sometimes they are absent.
The question is though,do his personal views really matter from the reader's standpoint? Not from the subject matter of the book, for I would think the answer would be fairly obvious there. But rather from a more commercial standpoint. Should we buy books that support someone that we cannot tolerate from a personal stance?
I myself have to admit to being a bit vague. Two of my early hero-writers (Pound and Eliot) were neofascists and yet I was entranced by their writing at the time. Dylan Thomas was an alcoholic and a womaniser but his writing still holds up after half a century. So where do we draw the line? Do we draw the line?
But then I was never that good at drawing.
The question is though,do his personal views really matter from the reader's standpoint? Not from the subject matter of the book, for I would think the answer would be fairly obvious there. But rather from a more commercial standpoint. Should we buy books that support someone that we cannot tolerate from a personal stance?
I myself have to admit to being a bit vague. Two of my early hero-writers (Pound and Eliot) were neofascists and yet I was entranced by their writing at the time. Dylan Thomas was an alcoholic and a womaniser but his writing still holds up after half a century. So where do we draw the line? Do we draw the line?
But then I was never that good at drawing.
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