| Re: What do books suggest about their author?
Well, if I come across a book containing excessive and irrelevant sadism and perversion, I am certainly going to wonder a good deal about the kind of mind that wrote it. I don't think I'd criticise the book just because the author was himself weird, unless the weirdness showed through in the novel -- though having said that I might not pick up the book in the first place if I'd had a hint that the writer's behaviour was of a kind of which I might disapprove (eg a convicted rapist is unlikely to get me reading his work simply because I don't want to put money into his hands). |