Have you ever read a book and were really surprised by the authors views?

Considering that he was a darling of Fox News and a super conservative he really treated the subject well. And focuses on the dirty dealing suffered by the Indians from the US Government and atrocities the military inflicted upon them. All in all in really good historical tome. I was super surprised that he was so sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans on the frontier.

Ayn Rand. What as stupid cunt.

Bill O’Reilly put on an act for his TV show. He’s not the person he pretended to be on TV – that’s a character for Fox / Republican propaganda TV.

I was surprised by sci writer David Weber, when I got to the second book in his Honorverse series, and started to discover that he has a huge right-wing American political perspective that he built into the cultures of his far-future space opera, complete with Space Mormon stand-ins and evil foolish space commies.

Didn’t realize CS Lewis was big on religion until college.

Maybe not surprised surprised. But more of huh hadn’t considered that kind of surprise?

Roald Dahl – So dark deep down.

I also second the CS Lewis vote. I loved his stuff as a kid. College opened my mind to the rest of his religious beliefs.