Books by Cancelled People
- Descrição
- Books written by people who have suffered real world adverse consequences for opinions expressed or actions taken and where the book is somehow connected to that experience.
1
por Andrew Doyle
59 membros
2 críticas
4.1
Pontuação 4
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:18 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: The author was working as a comedian and stopped being able to get gigs once he was connected with his satirical alter-ego Titania McGrath. This was his first book after that event. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-february-2021/kicked-out-of-the-comedy-club/
2
por Jack Phillips
20 membros
2 críticas
4
Pontuação 3.36
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:19 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: This book describes the experience of Jack Phillips, who, evidently quite politely, declined to decorate a cake in a way that was antithetical to his moral principles and who has since been persecuted for having taken this stance in a variety of ways. https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/06/the-never-ending-persecution-of-jack-phillips/
3
por Andrew Doyle
87 membros
7 críticas
3.8
Pontuação 3.04
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:23 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: This book may have been what got Andrew Doyle, the real author, into trouble and lost him his opportunities as a comedian. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-february-2021/kicked-out-of-the-comedy-club/
4
por Kathleen Stock
169 membros
6 críticas
4.1
Pontuação 2.83
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:26 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: The author was forced out of her job at the University of Suffolk with threats of violence and wrote this book, more or less simultaneously. https://unherd.com/2021/11/kathleen-stock-i-wont-be-silenced/
5
por Nicholas Wade
2 membros
1 crítica
4
Pontuação 2.68
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:31 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: Wade was subjected to much insult for giving his considered and informed opinion on the origins of the COVID virus. See probably ephemeral link: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3890421-house-democrats-denounce-gop-covid-witness-as-having-racist-views/
6
por Nicholas Wade
288 membros
9 críticas
½ 3.6
Pontuação 2.56
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:35 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: Nicholas Wade's post-retirement interest in human evolution and his most recent book on the subject are still being used as ammunition to suppress his opinions on the origins of COVID. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3890421-house-democrats-denounce-gop-covid-witness-as-having-racist-views/
7
por Paul Embery
25 membros
1 crítica
3.8
Pontuação 2.46
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:38 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: Union organizer who was fired for being pro-Brexit wrote this book: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56376172
8
por Galileo Galilei
756 membros
4 críticas
4.1
Pontuação 2.38
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 11:48 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: Galileo got himself into serious trouble with this one, as is a matter of historical record: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei/Galileos-Copernicanism#ref576727
9
por Robert Galbraith
1,150 membros
65 críticas
3.8
Pontuação 2.31
Adicionado 2023-07-01, 12:10 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: In this book, J. K. Rowling was felt to have commented pretty obviously, about her own experiences of online harassment: https://nypost.com/2022/08/31/j-k-rowlings-new-book-murders-character-called-transphobic/
10
por Graham Linehan
20 membros
4.8
Pontuação 2.25
Adicionado 2023-11-05, 05:42 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: This is a memoir describing how the author was kicked off the comedy circuit: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/12/tough-crowd-the-tragedy-of-graham-linehan/
11
por Salman Rushdie
12,062 membros
140 críticas
½ 3.7
Pontuação 2.2
Adicionado 2023-11-05, 06:04 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: Fatwah declared against the book's author when it was published. He was recently assaulted and nearly killed, having been stabbed in the eye.
12
por Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4,583 membros
193 críticas
4.2
Pontuação 2.15
Adicionado 2023-11-05, 06:09 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: After this book was published, the Dutch government was compelled to supply the author with around the clock security. She has since moved to the United States. Some of that experience is, I believe, described in a subsequent book, "Nomad". She was placed on a list of some sort by the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center). https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/a-new-blacklist-from-the-southern-poverty-law-center-marks-the-demise-of-a-once-vital-organization
13
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: https://unherd.com/2021/12/inside-the-trans-publishing-purge/
14
por Thomas Paine
1,534 membros
29 críticas
4.2
Pontuação 2.07
Adicionado 2023-12-08, 02:45 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: From "Books that Changed America" by Robert B. Downs: When Paine returned to America in 1802, he found himself received not as a Revolutionary hero, but virtually ostracized by political leaders and churchgoers, due to his authorship of "The Age of Reason" and his radical political theories....After seven incredible years of abuse, hatred, neglect, poverty, and ill health, he died in 1809, at the age of seventy-five. He was denied burial in a Quaker cemetery.
15
por Tamara Lich
10 membros
½ 4.7
Pontuação 2.03
Adicionado 2023-12-18, 08:27 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: Arrested and prosecuted for what (likely) should have been legally protected actions.
16
por Kate Clanchy
75 membros
2 críticas
4
Pontuação 2
Adicionado 2024-03-26, 08:33 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: https://unherd.com/newsroom/picador-cancels-poet-kate-clanchys-books/; https://unherd.com/2022/02/how-sensitivity-readers-corrupted-literature/
17
por Andrew Doyle
63 membros
2 críticas
4.1
Pontuação 1.97
Adicionado 2024-03-26, 03:16 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: The author was working as a comedian and stopped being able to get gigs once he was connected with his satirical alter-ego Titania McGrath. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-february-2021/kicked-out-of-the-comedy-club/
18
4,261 membros
98 críticas
½ 3.7
Pontuação 1.94
Adicionado 2024-03-26, 03:28 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/22/the-shameless-campaign-to-silence-jordan-peterson/
19
54 membros
1 crítica
3.9
Pontuação 1.92
Adicionado 2024-04-05, 01:30 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explicações
- themulhern: The author appears to have received death threats when his research was first published because it offended sensibilities. https://news.asu.edu/20201228-memory-influential-anthropologist-christy-g-turner-ii