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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Shunning a fiction writer for his politics is like criticizing a string quartet composer for not being a positive thinker.
I tend to choke on James Ellroy's politics, but that never stopped me from appreciating books like Killer on the Road.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I think you missed the point entirely, actually. Even after all that thinking.
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I guess I'm missing it, too. I would have assumed Presti was being ironic again (I usually get his irony) but the James Ellroy comment makes me think the point was straight forward:
Don't shun a writer for his politics (and by analogy,
don't criticize a composer for his mindset.)
But if so, I disagree. I would have been behind the ironic take.
I WOULD criticize a composer because of his mindset because that tone is quite likely to be reflected in the music, and I might not like that, and a fiction writer is indeed quite likely to have his politics reflected in his fiction, and if I don't like the politics, I wouldn't want to read it, or support it by paying for it.
Or was the James Ellroy comment ironic after all, and I just don't get it? I have no idea who James Ellroy is.
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