I know what you mean. He is my favourite author and I met him at a signing and he was lovely and gracious and by all accounts my experience was not unique. But there is something about him that comes across as dickish in interviews or twitter. I've never been able to put my finger on it in terms of specific things…

Sadly, I don't think he's a great person either. That's the thing.

I agree. I love his work as well, and have actually heard he was an arrogant dick.

He's exceedingly charming and intelligent! The man has charm for miles and miles on the surface. He also has the capacity to treat people very poorly. We all contain multitudes, after all. It just makes me cringe to see people say she's SO horrible and he's SO great because they seem very well matched from what…

I'm really glad you had a good experience! Honestly, I'm afraid to meet him because I don't want to be let down lol. I've heard both things - that he's awesome and that he sucks. Honestly, I find it easy to believe that he's an ass, just from some stuff I've seen online and a friend's anecdote.

Well he has been known to share her trait of taking it very badly when he says ignorant shit and is called out on it rather then just apologise and move on.

I know a few people who've slept with him and she's not the only one willing to indulge. He's taken advantage of being a niche heartthrob for quite some time now.

I've heard* that he's kind of elitist/arrogant and not really as great a person as he seems on paper/online. Which is sad, because I really like his work too. I imagine him as kind of like the literary Benedict Cumberbatch.

I have met him on a number of occasions and you are absolutely correct. He hides it well behind the floppy-haired self-deprecating British thing, but he's an arrogant twat.

they are a well suited pair, I think. He is oddly arrogant. I have waited on them a few times and have not read his work and do not enjoy her so I didn't really coddle them or gush or anything, just gave em normal service. And he left me his autograph on two separate occasions. Like left it behind at the table for me,…

I've heard that part of why they're together is that he has some weird sex stuff going on (nothing fucked up, just like, idiosyncratic) that she's willing to indulge. Plus he's always had a thing for alt-pixies.

I love his work. I've read a good amount of it, and think he's a fantastic writer. One of my favorites, in fact.

It's terrible that their lives are in danger now because their employer can't get even the tiniest bit of its shit together. I'm not a litigious person, but I hope they recover and sue the crap out of the place. And I hope Duncan's family joins them.

That hospital is in for some serious legal shit once this is all over with.

Sorry for the painful reminder - but as you can see, when we forget the horror - they return.

Well, look at fancy pants here. Doesn't get their medical advice from strippers with misspelled names.

Protip: do not get your medical referrals from someone named Pebbelz Da Model.

Douchebaggalos.

The fact they still got the photos shows the age of the manboy ring. Yes, she deleted them but they were stolen long ago before she had actually deleted them in the time after they were taken and the present day. They'll still say she never should have taken them—it's the way entitled manboys rationalize their…

Are those culottes or gauchos?