Re: /Survey: Author blogs and political controversies
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 11/10/2010 05:47:34 PM
1) Are you interested in reading the views held by your favourite authors, or authors that you like in general, on topics not directly related to their books?
Not usually, no. Maybe if it's an issue I really care about.
1a) If so, how much does it bother you when you find out their views are quite different from yours, or even offensive to you?
Not enough to make me stop reading their stuff, if I like it.
1b) If not, can your view of such authors still be influenced by hearing about their views involuntarily?
Maybe?
2) Have the political, religious, social,... views of an author ever been a factor in your decision not to read a book by him or her?
Only tangentially. For example, I don't read Terry Goodkind because his books are trash, but his personality and ... philosophy, if you can call it that, make me incredibly unlikely to change my mind and give him another chance.
2a) Or in your decision not to buy it?
See above.
3) Have you ever had the opposite reaction to such a controversy, feeling more inclined to buy or read books by the author, rather than less?
Um. Not that I can remember, but this is more likely than the other way around.
4) Do you think, all things considered, that it's a good thing for authors to write on their blogs about things not directly related to their work? Does that enhance the reading experience, hinder it, or neither?
Neither. They can blog about whatever they like. It's up to them, but they'd better not complain when people get upset about their point of view.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
/Survey: Author blogs and political controversies
- 11/10/2010 05:13:40 PM
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Re: /Survey: Author blogs and political controversies
- 11/10/2010 05:47:34 PM
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A Good Survey
- 11/10/2010 07:09:52 PM
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Re: A Good Survey
- 11/10/2010 07:11:06 PM
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Took you long enough to post about the Moon article 
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- 13/10/2010 03:18:35 AM
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- 13/10/2010 03:18:35 AM
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That would be why I didn't just post about the Moon article. 
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- 13/10/2010 10:52:07 AM
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- 13/10/2010 10:52:07 AM
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