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Are there any authors you feel bad for? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by MindDescending@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I've seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.

My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don't think she ever apologized.

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[–] Chad_Abraxas@alien.top 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The Last Unicorn is one of my all-time favorite books. Absolutely beautiful prose, sensitive character work, and (in the character of Schmendrick) a pitch-perfect depiction of what it's like to be at the mercy of artistic inspiration.

[–] Thaliamims@alien.top 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's also very funny and very sad. Really one of my all-time favorite books.

[–] Chad_Abraxas@alien.top 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's so wonderful on so many levels. And he was like 23 or 24 when he wrote it. It's rare that you find a writer that young who understands character and story so well.

[–] Thaliamims@alien.top 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was he really!? It's so utterly accomplished. I had no idea!

[–] Chad_Abraxas@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yes! Once you know he was young, it becomes more obvious on a re-read, since he really went ham on the prose, which is what younger/newer writers tend to do until they internalize the old adage "less is more." But he was so good with his prose in The Last Unicorn, I don't mind. :)