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The biography of the kid obviously shows he disliked the way he was exploited but this review sounds like it was something completely horrible.

mfoy_ 9y ago
I mean, if he didn't speak to his mother for the last 15 years of his life it was probably pretty horrible.
- pacaro 9y ago
  I’ve spoken with my father just once in the last 15 years or so, and that 9 years ago. It happens, not all people are good parents, not all relationships can or should be healed. I doubt I’ll speak to him again before he dies, that could be tomorrow, it could be in 20+ years. I’ve made my peace. Does that mean my childhood was “pretty horrible”? Parts of it weere, and I’m not sure that there is a calculus of human experience that would allow me to calculate a net horribleness quotient. But even with my father I remember happy and sweet moments.
  - Razengan 9y ago
    As someone who has lost people that I wish I could have done more with, I think you should still talk to him now and then, if only because you and him and your relationship with each other is never going to occur again in the infinity of this Universe..
    - pacaro 9y ago
      I understand that you mean well.
    - BrandoElFollito 9y ago
      As someone who lost some people who I should have done more with (or see more) AND people I am so happy to see dead that I almost celebrate their funeral every year by a big party - I think one should not offer such philosophical ideas to a random stranger without knowing the whole story.
      - Razengan 9y ago
        I still think it's a terrible thing to live with resentment for anyone, especially long after they are gone, and I'm free to voice my thoughts, but of course I'm not telling anyone what they should do. I've had people I despised too, where the best course of action for all involved was to completely cut contact, but letting them influence my feelings after they're out of my life just means allowing them victory over me.
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pbhjpbhj 9y ago
But then one of the horrors is fame, another fortune both of which appear relatively easy to avoid for an author -- use a different name for subsequent works, make the previous works public domain with "anon" as the author. For a child to be forced in to a position of promoting a book series, in those times, not much to be done; but the rest of it seems like complaining that your wallet is so full it makes the pockets in your silk trousers pull too much.

mfoy_ 9y ago

I mean, if he didn't speak to his mother for the last 15 years of his life it was probably pretty horrible.

pacaro 9y ago
I’ve spoken with my father just once in the last 15 years or so, and that 9 years ago. It happens, not all people are good parents, not all relationships can or should be healed. I doubt I’ll speak to him again before he dies, that could be tomorrow, it could be in 20+ years. I’ve made my peace. Does that mean my childhood was “pretty horrible”? Parts of it weere, and I’m not sure that there is a calculus of human experience that would allow me to calculate a net horribleness quotient. But even with my father I remember happy and sweet moments.
- Razengan 9y ago
  As someone who has lost people that I wish I could have done more with, I think you should still talk to him now and then, if only because you and him and your relationship with each other is never going to occur again in the infinity of this Universe..
  - pacaro 9y ago
    I understand that you mean well.
  - BrandoElFollito 9y ago
    As someone who lost some people who I should have done more with (or see more) AND people I am so happy to see dead that I almost celebrate their funeral every year by a big party - I think one should not offer such philosophical ideas to a random stranger without knowing the whole story.
    - Razengan 9y ago
      I still think it's a terrible thing to live with resentment for anyone, especially long after they are gone, and I'm free to voice my thoughts, but of course I'm not telling anyone what they should do. I've had people I despised too, where the best course of action for all involved was to completely cut contact, but letting them influence my feelings after they're out of my life just means allowing them victory over me.
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pbhjpbhj 9y ago

But then one of the horrors is fame, another fortune both of which appear relatively easy to avoid for an author -- use a different name for subsequent works, make the previous works public domain with "anon" as the author. For a child to be forced in to a position of promoting a book series, in those times, not much to be done; but the rest of it seems like complaining that your wallet is so full it makes the pockets in your silk trousers pull too much.