reactions to Lois McMaster Bujold's writings

[firecat]

I've read almost everything that Bujold has written and have liked most of it, but I have a few reservations. In http://epi-lj.livejournal.com/1728122.html - a discussion of Bujold, specifically Falling Free - I commented "Bujold's works sometimes have nastiness that bothers me." phantom_wolfboy wanted to

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[ailbhe]

A lot of her nasty stuff is... memorable. Yeah. Memorable.

I mainly reread the late series romances.

[mjlayman]

I know a lot of people who can't abide thinking about the kitten tree. I think that I know this is fiction and it doesn't affect me as much as other people (although I'm reading an ARC now that has me rolling my eyes every other page or so -- review to come) so it's okay in a book.

You do have to forcefeed people sometimes, particularly mentally ill people. It's one of those things you don't want to do, but the person will die otherwise and may not be capable of realizing that.

[micheinnz]

The character's forcefeeding was a form of abuse, and not the only form he endured.

The forcefeeding bothered me a lot less than other things that were done to him.