That article totally fooled me at first. I had to read this over and over:

well I will grant you that scenes of explicit sex, especially the rape and brother-sister incest we see in Game, have traditionally appealed only to female audiences

I'm still baffled by that, ita.

I have not read The Game of Thrones et al, because my tolerance for really long books with a lot of names in them has gone down as I've gotten older. I would, however, be more likely to read it than most literary fiction. In general, I'm allergic to almost anything described as "chick," unless the subject is baby chickens.

ita's white font reminded me: Did you know that there are big omnibus editions of V.C. Andrews' series? And that they're shelved prominently in the YA/Teen Reading section? Sure, most of us read them as teens, but actually *marketing* them to the YA readers? Ooooh-kaay.

I read that whole series when I was in high school (or junior high) and there are still elements of the books that I cannot get out of my mind.

I was absolutely horrified.

I was channel surfing a while ago and came across the movie.

wrod, le n, shouldn't they have their own garbage?

Oh, Todd, the movie is soooo bad.

Sure, most of us read them as teens, but actually *marketing* them to the YA readers? Ooooh-kaay.

I wonder if it's cross-shelved.

The bits I watched were pretty terrible. I've never actually read the books ... I heard enough, and browsed through one in the library, to know I wasn't inerested.

I do remember that when V.C. Andrews died, the books just kept coming.

I agree that Tepper goes whackadoo sometimes, esp. in some of her later books but I also think she has some mad creativity going one when she's on. I've really enjoyed some of her books like Grass, and even in the parts where I'm rolling my eyes, she brings up stuff that even though I may not agree with her militancy, makes me think about things and why I agree or disagree with them.

I read The Gate to Women's Country when I was a teen, for instance, and when I was reading a lot of Heinlein, too, and reading two ends of a spectrum made me able to suss out what I really thought about things.

I haven't really read any interviews with her, but I've enjoyed several of her stories, and she brings up interesting concepts and plays with them. I don't necessarily agree with some of her views, but i really think she's the kind of author that the term "speculatative fiction" define well as opposed to sci-fo or fantasy. She sepculates, and while I don't always agree with where her speculations GO, I do like the "Hmmm. Interesting...Where do I stand on this?" vibe reading many of her books has given to my brain.

I don't care as much about whether or not I agree with Sheri Tepper's views as much as I dislike how she chooses to express them. I think it ruins her narrative, and makes me spend time thinking of her as a person, and not coming to pleasant conclusions.