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neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote in [personal profile] lightreads 2011-04-30 09:37 pm (UTC)

Oh god, I tried to read a couple of her books a few years ago, on the premise that "hey, female SF writer that I've never tried."

They were all so bad. The interesting cultural bits she had devised were all playing a distant second to plots that were all about who was having dreadfully boring sex with who. I never got the impression that any of the characters actually had any emotional reaction to their partners, or even enjoyed the sex really. It was like porn written by computer algorithms -- dull and plodding.

Frankly, if I was PWP, fanfic is the place I go for that, and I can usually find better character development to boot.

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