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In reply to the discussion: Do you allow an author's personal beliefs to [View all]riqster
(13,986 posts)52. If they suffer from "Drury Disease"
That is a phrase referring to proto-wingnut Allen Drury , who wrote a series of Birch-ish novels back in the day. He got a lot worse as he aged.
I can deal with a subtext or underlying message, so long as the story is good. But Drury would take pages-long diversions from the tale to insert a polemic. Totally blew the sense of momentum.
Not that I agreed with his nutjob political views at any time: but when he blew up a narrative to ensure that we stupid readers got the point he was trying to make, it really cheesed me off.
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Perhaps the better way to say it is doesn't spill over into their work in unpleasant ways
el_bryanto
Jan 2013
#14
Is choosing to wait to watch a movie on cable (rather than a theater) also 'stealing' from studios?
X_Digger
Jan 2013
#25
In Card's case it's complicated because he seems to have changed his entire attitude at some point
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#22
the first osc book i read was 'Capitol,' a forerunner of the worthing chronicles. i was quite
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#69
Yeh, Card is an insufferable bigot. Definitely not a good idea to help finance his promotion of
Zorra
Jan 2013
#50
I've found that narrow minded authors like Card write stories that are as simplistic as their
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#57