Since the truth about him being an unforgivably abhorrent excuse for a human being has come out, I can’t stand the sight of these books in my house. They’re still books though, so I can’t stomach throwing them away in the trash or worse yet, burning them. I took them to a used book shop in the hopes whoever is interested in his stories can support a local business instead of a monster — the shop owner wouldn’t accept them! I don’t blame her though. Not one bit.
Now I’ve got the books — Stardust, Trigger Warning, Fragile Things, American Gods, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and The View from the Cheap Seats — sitting in the trunk of my car. Free to a good home or available for ritual sacrifice/voodoo.
by pennylane_9
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I put most of mine in a Little Free Library.
Put them in a free little library.
Strip the covers and into the paper recycling bin; make ’em into something useful.
Do you have little free libraries in your area?
[link to the little free library map](https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/)
I don’t see why it has to be an issue. I’ve always been a separate the art from the artist person. I can still very much think Kevin spacey is great in HOC despite what he was doing outside of it
Recycle them. Burn them. Give them away. Bury them in your backyard. What difference does it make?
I’ll take them. I have zero problem separating art from artist. You live near Houston, by any chance?
If you don’t want to keep them, can’t give them away, and can’t stomach destroying them, then you can either use them to make something or hide them somewhere — a forest or an attic.
They are paper, objects, not talismans or sacred. Throw them in the trash and don’t feel guilty about it. These things are printed in the millions.
Agreed with the giving away. It can be hard to separate the art from the artist, and Gaiman’s revelations hurt a lot.
But some people may learn joy of reading from his stories, then realize the truth about the author as a result.
A net gain, IMO. Just don’t pay him with new purchases
Shred them and use them for cat litter.
I took my gaiman and JKR to goodwill where it can join the faith-based self help books on the shelves of bullshit.
Another used bookstore might take them. Some take them based on current market value(author actions being irrelevant), which has probably gone down, though.
Goodwill and other similar places would take them.
…just take them to goodwill lmfao?
Plenty of people have no problem separating art from artists, especially when reading a used book where the writer won’t profit off of their purchase at all. And plenty more likely have no clue what Neil Gaiman did.
How far behind the news cycle are you?
Do what you like.
Recycle then. Give them away. Line the bottom of the litter box.
Books are important, generally, but that does make the a magical item. Gaiman is a monster and fair play to you for not wanting his work anymore. So just get rid of it.
Just junk ’em. They’re not rarities out of print. Their value is measured in pennies.
Read them.
You already own them, I wouldn’t worry about it. I wouldn’t buy any new ones, as this would give him more money, but that ship has sailed on the books you already own. No need to feel guilty about having them, or even for reading and enjoying them. Books belong to their readers.
IF you genuinely don’t like the books themselves, then as others have suggested, donate them to a library of some kind
If you’re throwing out books by authors that are horrible people you’re probably not going to have many books left in your library.
I’d also like to know, it sucks because Stardust got me into reading and now I don’t even like touching my copies of his books
I tossed my Orson Scott Card books in the trash so I wouldn’t inflict them on anyone else.
All of my HP/JKR stuff is in a box in the basement.
This kind of performative hysteria helps nobody.
Just donate them to a random Goodwill or something. A little free library. This is such an odd post.
If you enjoy the books, keep them to reread. Or take them to a used bookstore. He’s not been convicted of anything and several suits have been dismissed.
I took mine to Half Price Books. Except for my Sandman books. I won’t let him ruin those for me.
But that was shortly after the news broke. The buyer said they were surprised their system hadn’t dropped them in value yet.
Do you not have a library where you can donate them? People are saying goodwill but library book sales actually help the community.
I’ve still got mine. I can’t picture reading again them but their mere presence doesn’t bother me. I have been pondering re-reading the “London Falling” books by Paul Cornell in which Gaiman is a character in the second book and >!he turns out to be a bad guy!<
With my Harry Potter books I asked my parents to take them.
I haven’t yet felt at all like I wanted to try and seperate art from artist, but I did feel like it wasn’t the books fault and it meant I knew that my parents would never feel the need to buy their own copies.
Gaiman is clearly vastly more problematic but I have kept my copy of what is now Good Omens by Terry Pratchett.
It really sucks when idols turn out to have feet of clay.
Give them to a charity shop
make a banned/jailed book section on your bookshelf. put them behind bars or crime scene tape
Of all the things that have happened, the used book shop refusing Neil Gaiman books happened the most.
Throw them away if you want to, or donate to a book store or library (every single one would take them).
Weird post.
I sold/donated mine to half priced books.
The only books written by with Neil Gaiman that I still own are The Books of Magic Ombibus v1 (because the ongoing series that was written by someone else literally changed my life.) and Good Omens (because GNU Terry Pratchett and because Colleen Doran really got screwed over when the allegations came to life.)
Everything else, including the full Absolute Editions of Sandman are gone.
Imagine if we didn’t read anything by problematic or potentially problematic authors. There’d be nothing to read. I’m not sticking up for NG. But come one you already bought and paid for these things if you enjoyed the stories that’s fine you’re not the perpetrator.
I donated mine to our public library shop. I didn’t want them but I also don’t judge anyone who can separate the art from the artist and might still enjoy them.
You could just grow up and leave them on your shelf. Or throw them in the trash. Books aren’t sacred objects, yhey’re a consumer commodity.
Give them to a charity shop. So long as he’s not getting your money, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying his stories. I bought Mein Kampf at a thrift store. I even read (some of) it without thinking at any point that the author was a decent person. Also read a bunch of deSade, the first Harry Potter, and the Mists of Avalon.
Donate them, give them to me lol
You could take some of the pages and do blackout poetry about them, perhaps focusing on themes like opposing rape and sexual assault.
Probably some other subversive craft or demake projects you could do.
I’d sell them to a second hand store. You’d get some money back(not necessarily a lot), and if someone else buys them, that money isn’t going to the author.