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kleinbl00  ·  4743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tolkien: Tedious or Tremendous?
See, and there's a peculiar slavishness to authors that rubs me wrong. My family worships at the shrine of Heinlein. Yeah, he wrote some good stuff and certainly had some original ideas, but he was also a repetitive, sexist douche.

Books are just books. When you elevate them beyond "book" status you're practicing idolatry. Besides, as a friend once told me, "you're never somebody until you have enemies."