Comments on: Warning: Rant Ahead…

By: Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen

Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:21:56 +0000

I second you and up you an Amen. I wrote about similiar to this in my rants on Banned Books Week. I may not like some things or think my kids shouldn’t read them. And I don’t have to read them or let my kids read them. But I don’t have to censor the world for my own indelicate sensibilities.

By: Red Garnier

Red Garnier — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:25:03 +0000

AMEN, Lauren. And don’t get me started. I hate people who have nothing to do but be concerned about other people’s lives. Thank god I have my characters’s lives to be concerned with. ROFL!!

By: Shelli Stevens

Shelli Stevens — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:54:11 +0000

See you tomorrow!!!

By: Shelli Stevens

Shelli Stevens — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:53:47 +0000

Bleh. Those HP hater fanatics squick me out. I mean, why? Thomas the Train is written by some pastor or something. Why don’t those people go after them. Because obviously there’s no such thing as talking trains, so it must be devil worship.

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:05:29 +0000

I subscribe firmly to the “Love as thou wilt” theory of life.

I’d look those harpies dead in the eye and say, “Read as thou wilt. Now excuse me, I’ve got work to do.”

Hang in there, Lauren. If everyone was happy with what you do, you’d be dishonest somewhere along the line. Or so says a treasured friend of mine.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:55:47 +0000

This goes under this is why I am my child’s parent and you yours. You censor what your child reads and I’ll censor what my child reads. I don’t need help. I don’t understand why some people have the need to control what the rest of us are watching, reading, thinking or believing. I think they need to go get a life. And for God’s sake leave Harry Potter alone

By: Karen Erickson

Karen Erickson — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:46:20 +0000

Amen Lauren. MYOB is my theory. Who cares what other people are reading? That whole Harry Potter is the devil thing is ridiculous. Look at how that series got children to actually READ vs. play video games/watch TV all day long. So ridiculous.

Ok I need to settle down or else I could rant on for long long paragraphs. I’m just gonna end it with well said.

By: Megan Hart

Megan Hart — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:52:10 +0000

Look, read and write what you like. There’s room in the world for all of us. I applaud and support the right of anyone to read and write books that PLEASE them, by god, because I do it, too. I write books that make ME happy. (And they are usually not books that close the bedroom door, but so?)

I don’t go around saying that just because I like chocolate cake you shouldn’t eat coconut cream pie. I, in fact, loathe and despise coconut cream pie, but I would never dream of telling anyone they suck for eating it. And you know what? sometimes I like chocolate cake; sometimes I like key lime pie.

We don’t all have to lurve the same things.

And if you’re going to point your fingers at someone else’s work and call it trash and say it lacks imagination, perhaps it would be best if your own work wasn’t self-published with reviews made by yourself and family members…NOT because those two factors automatically mean the book is bad by any means, just that’s how it would appear to a casual observer.

If you’re going to tell other people their shoes don’t match their belts, maybe you should really clean that taco sauce of your blouse, is what I’m saying.

Otherwise you really just look like a whining, pouting blow hard and you lose all credibility.

And in fact, since I lost my earlier rant, I’m reposting this.