Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:23:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: reading likes and dislikes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I definitely agree with you regarding Out of this
World.  I had read Crosstime Traffic and thought it
was a lot of fun.  I checked Out of this World out of
the library based on cover blurbs that made it sound
like a fun romp and a quick skim of the first chapter,
when the book's mood was still light.  bit of a shock
when all of a sudden the hero's family is wiped out
and all the female characters have been raped.  Most
disconcerting.  Wouldn't have minded as much if I'd
known it was coming. Of course, I probably wouldn't
have read the book then.

--cathy
--- Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> wrote:

> My tastes are rather plebian.  I also am easily
> upset by what I read, so
> when I read something I want a happy ending.  And
> the middle better hadn't
> be too scary or upsetting.
>
> I loved all of Lawrence Watt-Evans' Ethshar books,
> so I picked up Out of
> This World and In the Empire of Shadow.  Awful.
> When he killed off the
> hero's wife and kid (he sent a six year old girl off
> to die as a slave for
> ghod's sake), I flipped to the back to see if he was
> going to pull some
> sort of happy ending out of his hat, and when he
> didn't, I put the book
> aside and had nightmares for weeks.  I'll probably
> have nightmares tonight
> just from remembering it.  So now, when I see a LWE
> book the first thing I
> do is check to see if it's an Ethshar book.  If it
> is, I'll buy it,
> otherwise...
>
> And we won't even get into the psychoanalyzing of
> the author that this invites.
>

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