*sighs*

Okay, so speedy_leen and I just had this conversation about Brandon Sanderson and how you can like a person's writing without liking the person, and I think I compromised with her on Sanderson (who at least seems open to discussion?), but with God as my witness, I am never telling another person to read Orson Scott Card.

I really like "Ender's Game". I like the possibility, the battle strategies, the future politics. I really liked the Bean sequels. I love the twisted version of "Children are our Future". When I worked at Chapters, and someone asked me for a book, I sent them to either "Ender's Game" or "The Power of One", because those are two books that I really love.

And now Card has rewritten Hamlet. Wherein Hamlet's father was evil. Because he was gay. And molested Horatio, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern, and made them gay too. Because that's how it works.

I had a huge angry thing here that I've deleted and rewritten a couple of times. It involved something about money and charities I don't like, and a vague denunciation of Card's new teen books (which I haven't read, because I was already against him in general), but I think I'm just going to say: NO THANK YOU, MR. CARD, and never spend another dime on any of his books again. And possibly toss the ones I've already got.

And then curl up with "Stealing Fire" for a while.