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Random House pulls novel due to fear of Christian violence |
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Posts: 138 (08/08/08 07:29:36) |
Okay, so maybe I'm rewriting the headline just a tad to make it more acceptable to some
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0736008820080807?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 |
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Posts: 7286 (08/08/08 07:47:32) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Publishers are in no way responsible for acts of violence committed by idiots. What a cowardly act of censorship.
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Posts: 139 (08/08/08 07:52:06) |
I agree. What is really a raw deal for the author is now she stands zero chance of ever getting it sold. If RH would have just passed on it for those reasons,
she may have been able to find a different publisher. But I'd imagine the book will be untouchable now that it's in effect been publicly declared a
potential catalyst for another round of riots and mayhem.
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Posts: 1027 (08/08/08 08:12:14) Master Shockliner |
The whole story is kind of strange, isn't it? Why would Random House have bought such a book in the first place? Why would they say in one paragraph
they're postponing, then say the author is free to shop the book around? I'm halfway wondering if this isn't a bit of a publicity stunt.
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Posts: 3631 (08/08/08 08:23:00) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Seriously. If they were to the point of having a book tour scheduled, she's got her advance and is - according to them - free to sell it again somewhere
else. Even if she sells it for a much smaller advance, the book now has built-in publicity, so it should sell, probably get her on Oprah and a few other shows,
and she'll have reaped 2 advances and the royalties.
Unless she signed a really bad contract! I'm with you - this is all a publicity stunt and we'll eventually see the book come out from random in a month or two.
JG Faherty
www.jgfaherty.com 'Everyone has a monster inside.' "Bones," in Cemetery Dance #58 (available now) "The Toll" and "Hybrids" in Wrong World, www.wrongworld.com (available now) "Experimental Subject," in Bits of the Dead "Family First," in Dark Territories |
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Posts: 7290 (08/08/08 08:29:21) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
(I think this rioting protester wants "Firefly" back on the air.) |
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Posts: 164 (08/08/08 08:41:02) Supershockliner Goddess
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I'm not sure why you changed the headline? The book was fiction about Islam. What's that got to do with Christians?
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HankTheHorrible |
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Posts: 140 (08/08/08 08:59:43) |
It doesn't appear to be a publicity stunt.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121797979078815073.html |
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Posts: 141 (08/08/08 09:04:00) |
michellependergrass wrote: Nothing. I just thought I'd get the obligatory slam against them out of the way right off the bat so I might not have to deal with the but-christians-aren't-any-better! comments later on. |
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Posts: 4101 (08/08/08 09:32:41) Shocklineraholic |
<<I think this rioting protester wants "Firefly" back on the air.>>
So do I! |
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BileDragon |
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Posts: 7297 (08/08/08 16:03:21) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
I still can't believe they cancelled that.
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dlatham |
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Posts: 941 (08/08/08 17:14:21) Master Shockliner |
That just lets terrorists and fanatics know that terrorism works.
Michael In Hell
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fuegoman2001 |
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Posts: 1301 (08/09/08 03:59:52) Shocklineraholic |
This sounds like the work of Rage Boy.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson |
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amygrech |
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Posts: 931 (08/10/08 16:44:59) Master Shockliner |
Urgh! Senseless censorship!
Amy |
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Lawrence Dagstine |
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Posts: 979 (08/10/08 18:37:17) Veteran Shockliner |
BileDragon wrote:You see it all the time in genre. However, the funny thing is you'd never see it with an author of JK Rowling's caliber. They'd let it ride, and with any inconvenient controversies that might go with it. Heh!
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Posts: 281 (08/10/08 23:40:34) Shockliner |
Here's the thing I don't get, Hank.
It's well established that no one on SL- or at least, no one who's spoken up about his or her views as that I've noticed - approves of Islamic extremism, or in any way condones the sort of violence that was carried out in response to the Danish cartoons (or the attempts on Salman Rushdie's life, or any of the other numerous instances where members of the Islamic religion have behaved horrendously in response to some perceived insult to their faith, real or imagined.) Nor have I noticed anyone who approved of the way much of the Western media apologized for that violence. It sure as hell pissed me off. So I'm pretty sure we're all on the same page when it comes to whether or not it's okay to kill someone because you disapprove of something that person created; the answer is of course, no, that's not okay, and it's not cool. So I don't really understand what your goal or point was with the whole "I'm rewriting the headline just a tad to make it more acceptable to some" thing is? What's with the baiting? |
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Qusoor |
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Posts: 864 (08/11/08 05:48:43) Veteran Shockliner |
Tom Piccirilli wrote: Well, who doesn't? Firefly was awesome.
John Goodrich,
My blog: Flawed Diamonds "There's an old Indian proverb that says if you are ever lost, you should sit down and begin to make a curry. Before the water boils for the rice, someone will come out of the forest and tell you you're making it wrong." --Bruce Lierman, "Dutch Mess" |
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Posts: 12940 (08/11/08 05:56:46) Queen of Horror World
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BileDragon |
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Posts: 7308 (08/11/08 06:04:39) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
"Monkey invasion." Ben, why didn't you tell me?
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Posts: 829 (08/11/08 06:13:49) Master Shockliner |
VeryUnseemly wrote: I of course defer to Hank to explain his own rhetoric, but I think it comes down to the following three perceptions he has:
Kim Paffenroth, Stoker Award Winner for Gospel of the Living Dead, and author of the new zombie novel Dying to Live. Visit him at his blog
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Posts: 997 (08/11/08 06:45:03) Master Shockliner |
kpaffenroth wrote:
Our camps are not in the Catskills. ooops. I said too much
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