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do not pass go, do not collect $200
Sep. 23rd, 2008 02:38 pmI had always prided myself on having achieved adulthood in fandom as a woman without ever owning any Marion Zimmer Bradley books. And then a couple of years ago I was given someone's entire book collection and found myself with 47 of the things. (I'd thought there were a lot more, but according to my book database it's "only" 47.)
I've kept them all on the theory that I should probably read another one (I read one ages ago and thought it was Way Stupid Shit, but maybe I'd just picked a bad book) before I passed them on to someone else. And then, this weekend, I was sitting around VP chatting with other instructors and staff and somehow the subject of MZB came up. One of the other staff members allowed as how they will not permit MZB books in her house.
I was curious as to why, as her reaction went beyond the usual just-don't-like-her thing.
This is why. A brief swing through the Googlelands shows a sufficient number of other sources as to convince me that this is true. And it's nasty.
I don't want her books in my house. Once I get settled back in (we got back from the Vineyard close to midnight last night), I am going to scour the book boxes and find each and every one of those books. I don't want them in my house, nor do I want to give them on to anyone else. I don't care if they are worth money, or deeply treasured by folk who either choose to overlook or de-emphasize the nature of who and what MZB was and did. This is a rare and terrible thing to do, but tonight all forty-seven go in the recycle bin where at least I'll know they won't go to crap up a landfill the way they've crapped up my house.
Feh. Good riddance.
I've kept them all on the theory that I should probably read another one (I read one ages ago and thought it was Way Stupid Shit, but maybe I'd just picked a bad book) before I passed them on to someone else. And then, this weekend, I was sitting around VP chatting with other instructors and staff and somehow the subject of MZB came up. One of the other staff members allowed as how they will not permit MZB books in her house.
I was curious as to why, as her reaction went beyond the usual just-don't-like-her thing.
This is why. A brief swing through the Googlelands shows a sufficient number of other sources as to convince me that this is true. And it's nasty.
I don't want her books in my house. Once I get settled back in (we got back from the Vineyard close to midnight last night), I am going to scour the book boxes and find each and every one of those books. I don't want them in my house, nor do I want to give them on to anyone else. I don't care if they are worth money, or deeply treasured by folk who either choose to overlook or de-emphasize the nature of who and what MZB was and did. This is a rare and terrible thing to do, but tonight all forty-seven go in the recycle bin where at least I'll know they won't go to crap up a landfill the way they've crapped up my house.
Feh. Good riddance.
