I buy a huge number of books by people I've never met (many of whom are dead, so I never will), and some by people I can't stand personally. The only thing that matters is the content of book.
Likewise, when working for other publishers and for computer companies, I have worked with some authors and co-workers who were temperamental, incompetent, had a lot of personal problems/crises, and who had other flaws that made them hard to work with. So what? I had to work with them anyway, so I did, and we did a good job together. What mattered was the work. I don't think it pays to look at the world primarily in terms of personal relationships and feelings, and particularly the business world. Quite simply, things are not all about any individual and their personal feelings, whether mine or someone else's. I don't kid myself that anyone publishing a book, even one that I gladly buy the minute I hear about it, gives a rat's patootie about me personally or would spend any time whatever catering to my own personal tastes. Not unless those personal tastes were similar to thousands of other book buyers, which apparently they often are. That does not mean I don't have a very sincere interest in costume--I wouldn't spend 14 years of full-time work writing about it if I didn't. Nor would I sew. That doesn't mean I dislike everyone in some particular group, including h-costume. It doesn't mean I have no personal friends. But I think it would be very silly to run my life according to who I personally like or who personally likes me, or to expect everyone to personally like me. If people like me, they do. If they don't, they don't. And that's true for everyone else, as far as I can tell. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com Zuzana Kraemerova wrote: > I don't really think someone can dislike a person by just reading his posts and never seeing him personally. If you're not a genius writer, you can never express your thoughts just as you have them in your head, which may lead to misunderstanding. > > Nevertheless, a book and his author can be two quite different things. I think people should be objective and regard the book as a result of work and study of the author, whatever his personality is. Technically-based women and most men would have this a bit easier. They would be more objective and would tend to say strictly what they want, which might sound a bit - hm - rude. Nothing to blame for , it's just a different way of thinking... > > I think it's quite natural that you buy more books from an author who's sympathetic to you, but I don't really like the idea of doing the opposite - unless you have a very good reason for it. > > Zuzana > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
