Would this put you off?

Depends where and when 🤭

pascal30

JamesandJon33
Marmin What is wrong about playing tennis naked?
I think it must be very freeing.

I read this as freezing. Which could also be the case.

It probably would put me off reading. I had heard the allegations regarding Alice Munro and was disappointed. However she isn't around to answer to them.

But Byron was merely a standard drunk and womaniser, possibly bi-sexual, given to drunken orgies. Fairly run of the mill,as things go

And the 'mad. bad, and dangerous to know' was said by Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers.

Lord Byron nursed his dog Boatswain through rabies without any fear of being infected. Later he wrote Epitaph to a Dog in memory of that dog.

Byron? Mad, bad and dangerous to know.

An interesting book on this subject is
Monsters - What do we do with great art by bad people? By Claire Dederer

It depends on two things: whether I was enjoying reading the authors before I learned bad things about them and what they had actually done. For instance I can happily read Philip Larkin, Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis even after learning that they were absolute shits. But however “good” a poet Anne Sexton may be, I have never read her and never will after reading her daughter’s memoir.

If I enjoy a book, it wouldn’t bother me tbh

No,that's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's not going to make any impact on them

Alice.

Good grief spabbygirl, that's a bit of a sweeping statement and has probably made a good few gransnetters do a sharp intake of breath. Perhaps that's what you wanted? On the OP's question, I'd say no, I wouldn't be bothered at all and would carry on reading if I enjoyed the writer's books.

Is this about the writer Alive Munro? I think it would change my attitude towards her, though I’m not sure I’ve read anything of hers.

I don't think it would put me off a writer that I already like BUT it might put me off reading books by a "new " author who has done something which I consider to be offensive.

Skye17 It is what a lot of men do, without anyone particularly criticising them. Some women are just not maternal.

When my sister married she became mother to an autistic girl, whose birth mother had walked out and who had been brought up lovingly and gently by a caring single father.

I was considerably upset when I found out that Doris Lessing had abandoned her three-year-old son and six-month-old daughter in order to ‘build socialism’.

It didn’t make me think less of her books that I had already read, and I don’t think it stopped me reading any more of her books. It did certainly give her ideas, including her political ideas, less credibility with me.

I still can’t understand how she could do that.

Thank you so much all of you, I have enjoyed reading your responses to my query and a lot of you seem to be thinking the same way I am, which is good, perhaps I am not strange after all

mum2three

Not really no, but I can't help wondering why you are asking. Have you discovered something unsavoury about a particular author.
J.K. Rowling is obviously not an animal lover, judging by her books, but it doesn't stop me admiring her talent or her opinions.
One thing I do wonder about is....do the authors of murder mysteries enjoy wring about the actual act of killing someone? I used to enjoy Wilbur Smith but he seems to enjoy thinking up the most horrible ways to kill people.

I don’t think the fact that J K Rowling shows some of her characters abusing animals means that she would do the same herself, or that she doesn’t care about animal abuse.

JamesandJon33

Marmin What is wrong about playing tennis naked?

I think it must be very freeing..

Marmin What is wrong about playing tennis naked?

It depends on the offence.

I enjoyed Ant Middleton books (SAS Who Dares Wins) until I read that he assaulted /injured two police officers…

Can’t look at him in the same light or with the same respect any more.
(being ex military myself)

Richard Wagner was another horrible man whose works are loved by many, not by me though. The historical context is also very difficult.

I haven't read anything, which is unsavoury about any of the authors that I read.
Perhaps, it would affect me.
I don't know.
I certainly have a knee jerk reaction to some actors on TV.

spabbygirl

yes, I struggle to read books by anyone who votes Tory because its such a selfish way of life, but not books that are very old as they didn't have the info we have

I don't know how a single author I read votes. If I've ever read how they vote it's been so irrelevant I've forgotten. To condemn all Tory voters seems a bit extreme, are they really the very worst people imaginable? I voted Labour so no personal axe to grind.

I stopped taking the magazine The Oldie because they put a "jokey " cartoon on the cover of J Saville (obnoxious man). But on the other hand my book group chose Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance and although I dislike his politics, I read the book and realised what a terrible background he grew up in, and in spite of it has managed to achieve great things. I'm afraid I still don't like him though, although I know I shouldn't really say that about someone I have never met.