I read Marion Zimmer Bradley, but not extensively. I read "The mists of Avalon" when I was 9 years old up to page 900 or so. I hated it. It was the first book I did not finish (my determination to read every book to its end was what got me so far).
I was clearly far too young for the book but at the time I was really pissed at her. I had really been looking forward to King Arthur from the women's side and it turned out that everything cool was missing and it was just about sex. It was kind of hammering home what all the kids stuff already perpetuated, that if it was for girls it was stupid.
I have a more differented view on this today, but I still think it is a superboring book that has no literrary value to me.
I have also read propaganda. And I think you need to, to be able to crittically analyze the propaganda you are confronted with every day. Those are books I read to learn about their tricks and I do keep my distance to those books.
I could also do that with MZB, but when I read for entertainment, I don't want to be so guarded. I just wan't to let the author take me to their world and run with it.
I agree that you should not jump on someone you heard a rumor about, but like Barb wrote the MZB/Breen thing really is past that stage.
Mind you, I am not calling for a ban, I think no one is. I don't think banning books is a good idea, ever, but I decide what I read, for entertainment or for learning. And I feel I can learn far more from other books and her actions sicken me too much to let her entertain me.
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Date: 2014-07-03 07:16 am (UTC)I was clearly far too young for the book but at the time I was really pissed at her. I had really been looking forward to King Arthur from the women's side and it turned out that everything cool was missing and it was just about sex. It was kind of hammering home what all the kids stuff already perpetuated, that if it was for girls it was stupid.
I have a more differented view on this today, but I still think it is a superboring book that has no literrary value to me.
I have also read propaganda. And I think you need to, to be able to crittically analyze the propaganda you are confronted with every day. Those are books I read to learn about their tricks and I do keep my distance to those books.
I could also do that with MZB, but when I read for entertainment, I don't want to be so guarded. I just wan't to let the author take me to their world and run with it.
I agree that you should not jump on someone you heard a rumor about, but like Barb wrote the MZB/Breen thing really is past that stage.
Mind you, I am not calling for a ban, I think no one is. I don't think banning books is a good idea, ever, but I decide what I read, for entertainment or for learning. And I feel I can learn far more from other books and her actions sicken me too much to let her entertain me.