The life of the author
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The life of the author
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I'm no fan of Nicholas Sparks but I gather he writes fiction & in that case I really don't see what his personal life has to do with his books.
(Anyway maybe the divorce was his wife's decision!)
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I agree. I don't care about the personal life of the author, but avoid authors such as Grass due to their racism.chytach18- wrote:I do agree that personal life of the author is his or her personal life, and nobody`s else. However, if his or her social or political opinion is shown in the writing and that, in its turn, has an impact on political or social group of people, that`s another matter. It was recently revealed that Gunter Grass, the author of The Tin Drum, had connections with the Nazis, and that had a massive negative impact on his readership.
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I agree completely! I think it's too extreme to stop reading works by an author over something like a divorce (especially when you might not know all of the circumstances), but honesty is another matter entirely! If the author plagiarized or lied, then he/she doesn't deserve our time and money!DATo wrote:Something like divorce or even having been convicted of a crime (O'Henry served time for embezzlement) wouldn't prevent me from reading their work; on the other hand, if the cause of contention was related to the craft of writing - if the writer was found to be a plagiarist, if it was proved that the book was largely ghost written, or if the author had claimed the story was true when it wasn't (famous case in Oprah's Book Club) - then I am through with that writer, then, and forevermore.
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