Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Orson is so frustrating. Speaker for the Dead is a wonderful book about not judging other cultures, their practices or desires. Things that may seem shocking to you personally, are normal and celebrated by others.

    And it’s written by a bigot. Like dude, have you even read your own book?

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      It works because it is everything he doesn’t believe in that the readers coalesce into a coherent ideology. He was just writing about a world he doesn’t believe can exist because his world was shaped so strongly by LDS/Mormonism.