I totally lost interest in Lost Souls when I realised there seemed to be no fucking storyline. But I did try to read it because a friend at the time loved it.
But I was happy to learn recently that Dr Brite was transitioning, just cos you know. That's cool. But yeah, can't bring myself to read any more of the books or finish that first.
I was really disappointed with my copy that insisted on referring to him as "she". I know that's how he was (publicly, at least) identifying at the time but this was a new copy. That said, still a shitty writer! You did a wise thing stopping reading because ugh. "No storyline" doesn't begin to cover it.
That did occur to me but then I thought "you know what, it might explain but doesn't excuse it, and the writing still sucks" and carried on. It's not even that the women are portrayed as bitches either, they're just vapid uteruses. (Uteri?)
I don't know why I do these things to myself and yet I've spent the past few reading months doing precisely these things to myself.
ETA: Thinking on I think the reason I just laughed at Lost Souls while Burning Wild last month by Christina Feehan made my physically angry was because yes, while they're both misogynistic, I feel like Brite had valid reason to feel that way whereas Feehan is just an awful person and/or terrible writer. (Or perhaps she's just stupid.)
I read that book when I was having an epic tonne of gender issues myself, which may have accounted for the appeal, and even then it was far from being my favourite - mostly for the prose though. That fucking ULTRAVIOLET prose.
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But I was happy to learn recently that Dr Brite was transitioning, just cos you know. That's cool. But yeah, can't bring myself to read any more of the books or finish that first.
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WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO YOURSELF. No one over the age of 18 should read that book.
(NB: worth pointing out that the misogyny rife in PZB's early books may well have been genderloathing since Poppy is now Doc.)
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I don't know why I do these things to myself and yet I've spent the past few reading months doing precisely these things to myself.
ETA: Thinking on I think the reason I just laughed at Lost Souls while Burning Wild last month by Christina Feehan made my physically angry was because yes, while they're both misogynistic, I feel like Brite had valid reason to feel that way whereas Feehan is just an awful person and/or terrible writer. (Or perhaps she's just stupid.)
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