alt Hacker NewsOkay. I'll accept the premise that she was principally an autobiographer through film reviews. But when she was, as the author notes, not a kind or good person, why consume her autobiography?
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You did not put quote marks (and were not literal in quoting), so we may interpret that you would not accept advice from non kind people (what?!).
Besides the basic logic that it should be advice from people with good judgement that one should accept, what should instead be revealing and a red alert is
> her enthusiasm for Jean-Luc Godard’s lesser works
Because she was smart, and her reviews will make you think.
Does one often use this basis for consuming autobiographies? I'd rather think the common cause for reading an autobiography is because it is interesting, or because the person is interesting, or notable to history in some way, and you want more insight into their life and way of thinking. I'm admittedly not much for autobiographies myself, and the only memoir I actively chose to read was Napoleon's, but my choice to read it certainly wasn't because I thought he was a kind person.
Do you only read autobiographies, and by extension, blog posts/novels/etc. by people you morally agree with?