For every bad thing there is an awesome one
Due to my old love of Ender's Game (and Speaker for the Dead) I try to avoid any news connected to Orson Scott Card. I don't want the book to get spoiled by my feelings towards the author. Unfortunately, in his public writngs he comes off more and more as an asshole. OSC is pretty well known for being a homophobe (it's one of the worst sides of his Mormonism and he's been critised for it for quite a while now). He has also expressed other controversial or plain horrible views but as I said I try to limit my knowledge of them.
Instead I hit where it hurts most - I stoped reading (and buying) his books. I avoid his new books mostly because they are getting worse and worse and they became simply unreadable. This is why I didn't know this even existed until it reached me through my flist. Orson Scott Card's Hamlet's Father is a rewrite of Hamlet - The back of this slim novella boasts that once we have read this "revelatory version of the Hamlet story, Shakespeare's play will be much more fun to watch - because now you'll know what's really going on." It's "revelatory" inthe sense of completly changing the characters and their motivations with added homophobia. Really true future classic.
Luckily, the news of this reached me through scott_lynch who also provided instant detox in form of THE SO MUCH LESS GAY and NOT WRITTEN WITH GAY BIG WORDS version of THE CRONICLE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FIFTH formerly by William Shakespeare.
Instead I hit where it hurts most - I stoped reading (and buying) his books. I avoid his new books mostly because they are getting worse and worse and they became simply unreadable. This is why I didn't know this even existed until it reached me through my flist. Orson Scott Card's Hamlet's Father is a rewrite of Hamlet - The back of this slim novella boasts that once we have read this "revelatory version of the Hamlet story, Shakespeare's play will be much more fun to watch - because now you'll know what's really going on." It's "revelatory" inthe sense of completly changing the characters and their motivations with added homophobia. Really true future classic.
Luckily, the news of this reached me through scott_lynch who also provided instant detox in form of THE SO MUCH LESS GAY and NOT WRITTEN WITH GAY BIG WORDS version of THE CRONICLE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FIFTH formerly by William Shakespeare.