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He’s had so much work and he looks so off putting. There’s a book called Neverwhere by a guy who is a sex criminal so fuck that but it did have something that always struck with me. It has a bit where it describes a man in a suit but it was wrong, like it had been made by a tailor who had had the idea of a suit explained to them, but had never seen a suit before. Elon is like that. He’s like a human if you made them based on a second hand description.
I enjoyed Neverwhere and American Gods and I've been vaguely meaning to read Anansi Boys and the Sandman graphic novels, but I haven't read up on the author's crimes. I feel like I might not be able to enjoy the work or want to take his books off the shelf. I suppose that choosing to sustain this ignorance means I'm obliged to educate myself.
It’s some very bad shit. He’s not a redeemable character in my eyes. Like, put him in the plastic magneto jail.
Edit: I loved his books too, it sucks
That sucks, yeah like I say in my other reply I'd kind of picked that up by inference. Reading is kind of intimate in that you travel into the imagination of the author and I think it would preclude me from enjoying the work. Hard to separate the art from the artist in that kind of medium, because of the way reading is experienced.
Everytime time you seperate thr art feom the artist you are left wondering why the mediocre middle aged guy ends up with the 20 year old manic pixie dream girl. Which describes each of the works in question.
Yeah, that’s a good way of explaining it. On a personal note, I think I’d be too focused looking for clues of his rotten behavior inside the pages to just sink into a book. I’d be clinical. That’s not why you read contemporary fantasy.
It's really bad. Good Omens was one of my all-time favorites, and it's ruined for me now. Granted, a lot of the charm in that novel was Pratchett, but you can read Pratchett without Neil's baggage. Granted, you still have to work through some of Pratchett's more problematic shit once you get deep enough into Discworld, but it's comparatively mild.
I've read everything by Pratchett but have been putting off Omens for year, even before the gaiman allegations came out mainly because I cbf with another Christian mythology based story when I could just re-read a discworld banger, now I probably never will
Yeah I had sort of picked that up through insinuation, and I wasn't avoiding reading about it because I didn't want my opinion of a precious 'lil author spoiled but because it's like, well I don't need to learn the details of another saga of abuse and all the people and institutions that abetted it. Thanks for the tip on Discworld, I know people have a lot of love for Pratchett but I've never read any of him. I don't do a lot of fun reading these days but I'll keep it in mind.
If you're sensitive to that kind of thing definitely avoid the descriptions of what he did they're so much worse than the(still extremely fucked) bulk of metoo cases
You don't have to read up on what he did in detail, you can just trust the fact that people now refer to him as the SA guy who also happened to write some books and move on