An anonymous commenter says:
This is what happens when you say anything that is not wildly enthusiastic about Jane Austen. I don’t know any other author who provokes this obsessive protectiveness.
I know one such other writer.
It’s Ken Follett. I once wrote a critical review of his most recent novel and people got simply rabid. I’m a passionate reader but it would never occur to me to get so worked up because somebody didn’t like the same book I did.
The culmination of that debate was when one of my detractors discovered that I also once wrote a positive review for Tampax tampons.
“See, she writes good reviews for something so nasty,” he exclaimed gleefully. “Of course, she is incapable of understanding Follett!”
I still haven’t found a connection between tampons and Follett’s book, but people’s minds work in strange ways.
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Ken Follett??? But–I thought he wrote standard formulaic potboilers. Who gets passionate over those?
Fans are so weird.
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Follett now started writing “historical” novels and people really dig those.
But there is something even weirder. There is this writer who writes biographies of famous authors. I don’t remember her name right now but I can look it up later. This biographer also has a bunch of very unhinged fans. I once mildly criticized one of her biographies and the fans went after me like a pack of hungry wolves. I had no idea anybody could get so angry over a biography of Maugham.
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What’s nasty about tampons? Prince Charles wanted to be one. 😉
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