wrote like wet papier-mache

[fitz_clementine]

So I pick up this new Jodi Picoult book because it's got a dude with Asperger's as one of the characters and I know it's probably going to be really, really horrible and cringe-inducing but a slightly masochistic curiosity compels me and I flip the covers open and...

Literally. THE first sentence I lay eyes upon, on the first page that fell

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[spacklegeek]

I heard a story on NPR last month about a woman with autism and I wanted to share it with you, because I was curious if what she (and the story) said was similar to what you know. Actually, several times in listening I thought, "That reminds me a little bit of something Julia would say..."

I've had folks recommend Jodi Picoult's books to me before, but I haven't picked one up, yet. I'm somewhat leery of mainstream "literary fiction".

[fitz_clementine]

I'm not sure that Jodi Picoult is actually considered highbrow enough to be called a writer of "literary fiction," but she's certainly mainstream. My impression is that she mostly writes vaguely sensationalistic tearjerkers about middle-class heterosexual white people with Problems, often including sickly or disabled family members.

That's kind of interesting. I never really understood the appeal of Friends either -- I mean, from what I've seen it's unfunny comedy about a bunch of people who I can't relate to, don't find interesting, and wouldn't want to be friends with in real life. I think if you looked at the viewing demographic for, say, Star Trek or Firefly , you'd find a lot more autistic people than you would among Friends watchers. Because we know we belong on spaceships, really.