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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I just have to ask, since comments like this seem to pop up quite alot: Do you realy mean this or is this some exaggeration? I mean do you really do not read anything from anybody who has another opinion than you? If we would be talking about some crime or extrem political views, I could understand it. But not reading a book because an author has a different opinion about a contract dispute between two big companies?
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I will point out that not patronizing an author may be a very trivial matter for some, needing no extreme reason for doing it.
If one has huge TBR stack, and wide pool of men's adventure genre books to choose from, paring it down by eliminating an author who's comments you find insulting or not in your best interest may only only be one round ahead of paring down based on hairstyle.....
Did Child really say "if a person could afford it at £8, they can afford it at £10?"
That, plus his slipping of his own political views inappropriately into his books, is enough to make me not want to patronize him any more either.
I've enjoyed Jack Reacher for the most part, but he didn't change my life, and there are just too many men's adventure writers out there who DON'T annoy me.