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Originally Posted by ucfgrad93
Agreed. If I read romance novels, I wouldn't purchase one of hers.
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I’ve come across no mainstream review telling me she is worth reading. But if that was different, there are several reasons I’d not be influenced in my reading decision by anything other than book quality.
One is that, by the preponderance of the evidence, her misleading behavior was a product of mental illness. (By the way, the preponderance of the evidence goes in the same direction for Agatha Christie in 1926.)
You can’t ever prove what is going through someone’s mind, but I think mental illness, and even what used to be called a mental breakdown, isn’t rare.
Another reason to read is that if the standard is the worst thing a person ever did, a large portion of good authors are going to fail the test. I don’t vouch for everything in this link, but it gives the picture:
RESPECTED WRITERS WHO WERE ACTUALLY TERRIBLE PEOPLE
I don’t think I’m worse than the average human, but have I ever done anything, even long ago, so shameful that it would get me on a do not read list? Could be. If we refuse to read someone because of their publicly known bad behavior, we are quite liable to read someone who is actually, but secretly, worse.