Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
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Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
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Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#2Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left.
I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#3Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left. I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
How about giving him a chance because he's Orson Scott Card?
Either way, he's done some of my favorite science fiction titles but I mostly have to pretend he doesn't exist in real life. His politics, with regard to social issues, are just vulgar.
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#4Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left. I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
It must suck to live in a world where the main-stream media is so wildly left-wing you can't stand to read it. Just how extremely right-leaning do you have to be to end up with that perspective?
His opinions on other subjects range from misguided to outright offensive.
Orson Scott Card has devolved into a frothing at the mouth lunatic in recent years. His opinions are borderline worthless. His more recent novels make Twilight look like fine literature.
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#5Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left. I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
How about giving him a chance because he's Orson Scott Card ? Either way, he's done some of my favorite science fiction titles but I mostly have to pretend he doesn't exist in real life. His politics, with regard to social issues, are just vulgar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Politics
Oh, maybe you mean his extended fawning Hitler biography Ender's Game: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#6Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left. I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
How about giving him a chance because he's Orson Scott Card ? Either way, he's done some of my favorite science fiction titles but I mostly have to pretend he doesn't exist in real life. His politics, with regard to social issues, are just vulgar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Politics
I have the same problem. The author and real-life raving loon are two different people in my head. Ender's Game is still one of the best books I've read and I have to keep this separation to avoid going out and donating the books of his I own.
I refuse to read any of his new stuff, but that's probably 50% politics and 50% taste.
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#7Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left. I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
How about giving him a chance because he's Orson Scott Card ? Either way, he's done some of my favorite science fiction titles but I mostly have to pretend he doesn't exist in real life. His politics, with regard to social issues, are just vulgar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Politics
>And subversives can expose diplomatic secrets, critics can expose scientific hoaxes, and governments can track conspiracies
While part of me is still hoping he's talking about Snopes, I know this is a reference to the University of East Anglia emails, which were about as much a blow to climate science as the Arsenic bacteria were a boon to astrobiology. I may have to adopt your "pretend he doesn't exist in real life" approach.
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about giving him a chance because he's Orson Scott Card ? Either way, he's done some of my favorite science fiction titles but I mostly have to pretend he doesn't exist in real life. His politics, with regard to social issues, are just vulgar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Politics
Oh, maybe you mean his extended fawning Hitler biography Ender's Game: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034
That link gets stupider each time I have to read it, which humorously enough is each time Card's name gets mentioned in any topic, it's a new abstract Godwin's Law.
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, maybe you mean his extended fawning Hitler biography Ender's Game: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034
That link gets stupider each time I have to read it, which humorously enough is each time Card's name gets mentioned in any topic, it's a new abstract Godwin's Law.
This is the first time I've seen that article. Can you explain more? Is there more surrounding this article?
Re: Orson Scott Card: How 'Friend' Became a Verb
#10Bloggers did an end-run around Big Media to break the ideological stranglehold of the left. I was willing to give him a chance since it's the WSJ, but he just had to throw something like that in there.
It must suck to live in a world where the main-stream media is so wildly left-wing you can't stand to read it. Just how extremely right-leaning do you have to be to end up with that perspective? His opinions on other subjects range from misguided to outright offensive. Orson Scott Card has devolved into a frothing at the mouth lunatic in recent years. His opinions are borderline worthless. His more recent novels make…
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