John Sandford - The Hanged Man's Song

[kerrywins]

Is John Sandford a conservative?
I wanted to read this book...its a fiction book about computers and stuff, but he started talking about politicians...and I just wanted to know if this author is a conservative....if he is, I don't wanna waste my time reading this thing. And I might even return it to the library and give them a list of books I could recommend they get.

[madfloridian]

1. It was an excellent book.

I was impressed with it just as a good read, and also with the implications of possible uses of databases. I love all his books. The Kidd ones are always great.

[kerrywins]

2. so...

there's not any conservative crap thrown in there?

[madfloridian]

5. Not that I noticed. He is just a great writer.

Both his Prey series and the Kidd books. Also he started a series called the Night Crew, but I have not seen anymore.

[Pepperbelly]

3. if it's the same john sandford (real name John LeCamp) does ...

not politicize his novels.

He is an artist and as strong a narrative voice as you can find writing these days. His "Prey" books are solid, the characters wonderful, the dialogue sparkling, the wit overwhelming. His stuff has never struck me as political at all and I am sensative to it. If he is a wing nut, I cannot tell, even after reading all of his books.

[markdd]

4. Great Read

Kidd books tend to be a little to the tinfoil hat side. Kidd is a master hacker, part time artist and all around anarchist. His causes tend to favor the underdog against the establishment, local politicians and Microsoft.

That said, I've no real idea of Sanford's politics in general.

[candy]

6. I'm reading his latest,"Hidden Prey" right now.

Who gives a damn whether he's a liberal or a conservative,he writes a great book. I've read them all.

Why on earth would you care what his leanings are? Seems rather juvenile to me.

[kerrywins]

7. i don't know

i've jus read books beofre...where I could tel the author was probably conservative...and he constantly threw his "views" in the book...sort of in a way that you had to really reread to see he was throwing it in...
i don't know...I guess I shouldn't care...

[candy]

8. Of course the author puts his/her views in the books.

Wouldn't you? I don't really care, I just take it for what it's worth,a good story.

John Sandford is the best,especially his Lucas Davenport series.

Good luck with your reading!

[A_Possum]

9. A novelist's perspective...

This is a topic of some interest to me. I'm a published novelist, and I have a Kerry link on my website. I'm sure this puts off some readers, but the way I look at it is, no one pays to come visit my site, like they pay to buy my books. Rather, I pay to host it. Therefore it's an appropriate place for me to "put up a sign" and support my candidate. If I lose readers, I lose readers. I've only had one comment about it from a reader so far, and that was a complaint during the primaries (when I supported Graham with a contributions link and a statement of why I was doing so) from a Bush supporter that I didn't allow any political discussions on my message board, therefore she couldn't post "her side." I just said, it's my board, sorry, them's the rules, you're free to have political discussions many other places on the web.

I write historical (romance) novels, so I don't have to worry about current events or politics in my books. I'm sure my general attitudes about life color my books, but mostly they go the way the characters demand that they go, and that isn't always what I would do or even approve of, myself, that's for sure. :) I think most good novelists are that way--more driven by the characters they create than by their political beliefs. Bad novelists would be another matter. ;)

As a reader, I would probably also be suspicious of an author who was openly conservative, at least in the past few years, because the whole conservative worldview has become so extreme.