SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

yeah let's not turn into the internet rage machine you seem to be protesting. this is a space for talking through what we do when we learn things that make us unhappy about an author, not what we think of other people's thoughts or trying to litigate other people's statements.

Kaia wrote: "Beth, your post reminds me of a quote from Neil Gaiman, “No two readers will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.” In the same essay he talk..."

Yes, Kaia! That's exactly what I was getting at :)

Neil Gaiman said it better - but I guess that's why he's a published author and I'm not :D

I know I will be bringing this new knowledge with me if I reread any books by this author and I think I will treat the stories with more suspicion now. I don't know if any scenes will read differently in light of what I have learnt but for now I choose to let the stories I remember be innocent because that is how they exist in my mind.

Navigator wrote: "You Americans like word "problematic" a bit too much. If it is a term for "all things that make me uncomfortable" then why don't you say it properly?

Also - the hex is fat-shaming? 0_o

Anyway, b..."

What can I say, our English is problematic, we often use words that don't mean what we think they mean. LOL.

Interesting thread I've not noticed before...

I couldn't possibly pick up an Arthur C Clarke book these days.

I remember back in the 80s reading a list in the paper of the "100 most influential books of the C20". Mein Kampf featured at about 42 and after my initial outrage I had to agree that it was indeed an influential book.

Some years later I was studying Germany between the wars in Modern History (university) and tried to read it... Influential it may have been, readable it was not.