Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 14:16     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
The book sucked.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 14:13     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not sure how this story hasn’t gotten more traction. I hated her book and thought it was racist claptrap. Now I know why.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-mark-owens-zambia-murder/670479/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab


Agree. I hated that book.


that book was HORRIBLE. I forced myself to finish it since everyone said how great it was so I assumed I just hadn't got to the good part yet ... nope all bad. I don't understand how it's so well loved.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 13:37     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Anonymous wrote:Not sure how this story hasn’t gotten more traction. I hated her book and thought it was racist claptrap. Now I know why.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-mark-owens-zambia-murder/670479/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab


Agree. I hated that book.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 13:36     Subject: Re:Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
I’ve never read the book but this story has definitely been reported in the media before because I’ve read about it.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 12:01     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Anonymous wrote:OP here, and I don’t think it matters whether the book is about the murders themselves. What matters is that she and her family behave like old school colonialists toward Zambians they supposedly work alongside. And that this same attitude is thinly veiled in her mega blockbuster with a movie about to make her even more money. How is no one bringing this story up on the eve of the movies release?

Exactly.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:49     Subject: Re:Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Terrible book. I’ve also wondered why no one cares about her sketchy past. It’s been known and written about for years.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:47     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Anonymous wrote:OP here, and I don’t think it matters whether the book is about the murders themselves. What matters is that she and her family behave like old school colonialists toward Zambians they supposedly work alongside. And that this same attitude is thinly veiled in her mega blockbuster with a movie about to make her even more money. How is no one bringing this story up on the eve of the movies release?


Anyone else convinced the movie will be a major flop? I loved the book.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:23     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
OP here, and I don’t think it matters whether the book is about the murders themselves. What matters is that she and her family behave like old school colonialists toward Zambians they supposedly work alongside. And that this same attitude is thinly veiled in her mega blockbuster with a movie about to make her even more money. How is no one bringing this story up on the eve of the movies release?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:13     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Somehow I doubt she gets extradited


I think she’s just wanted for questioning. Sounds like her son is the one who killed the guy.


Fortunately for them, they're American and the murder happened in Zambia. It will end up as a line on her wikipedia page and nothing more.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:13     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
That article was interesting but so sensationalized. The book was supposedly about the murder because it took place in Georgia and there was a murder in the book?

There are a million books about murders. (Even some books by murderers.) This book? Not about that murder.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:12     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Anonymous wrote:Somehow I doubt she gets extradited


I think she’s just wanted for questioning. Sounds like her son is the one who killed the guy.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:09     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Somehow I doubt she gets extradited
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:07     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Yeah that article is bonkers. Also, the part where she makes the African acquaintance out to be some childlike simpleton, asking if airplanes fly up to the stars? The journalist tracked him down, and dude had served in the Zambian Air Force 😂
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:05     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Um, holy crap.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2022 11:02     Subject: Delia Owens wanted for murder in Zambia
Not sure how this story hasn’t gotten more traction. I hated her book and thought it was racist claptrap. Now I know why.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-mark-owens-zambia-murder/670479/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab