Yeesh. Now I'm sorry I mentioned Tepper and revealed my poor taste. I am so much more comfortable when I don't post.
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Katerina Bee - Jan 29, 2004 8:51:51 am PST #658 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
erikaj - Jan 29, 2004 8:56:43 am PST #659 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Nope, not your fault KB Sounds like a new hidden camera special "When Good Writers Go Insane" Patricia Cornwell, babe, you're on for next week.
deborah grabien - Jan 29, 2004 8:57:36 am PST #660 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Katerina, why on earth? It isn't poor taste - I'm not sure there's any such thing as poor taste.
I love Charlotte McLeod, light foofy mysteries with cute characters and preposterous plots. She has about as much nutrition as a popcorn container. I adore her and pimp her to people. Poor taste? Who cares?
You started a discussion about what people like and don't like about a particular author. This is a good thing, not a bad one.
amyparker - Jan 29, 2004 8:58:30 am PST #661 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Even though I don't buy the premise, the book was explicitly about male-female relationships, so I thought her biases worked fine in it artistically.
See, I took from it that men and women were not capable of relating as peers. I found the idea actively offensive. And while for the Council's purposes homosexuality might have been an aberration in need of correction, the idea didn't help matters along.
Betsy HP - Jan 29, 2004 8:59:10 am PST #662 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Katerina, I hate it when people I love hate the books I love. Things are supposed to be transitive.
I'm mad at Tepper because I loved her early stuff so much. The Marianne books, for instance, are deep and magical.
Ginger - Jan 29, 2004 9:00:59 am PST #663 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's certainly not poor taste, Katerina. I was a Tepper fan until she hit the "when good writers go insane" line. Even then, I think if you only read one of the later books, the fact that she's started seeing the world through a crack that's about half an inch wide wouldn't be as obvious.
Katerina Bee - Jan 29, 2004 9:02:21 am PST #664 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Thanks gang. I'm just having a low self esteem day, and reacted with inappropriate guilt. Must apply power of the mind to counteract its ill effects. Carry on.
erikaj - Jan 29, 2004 9:03:00 am PST #665 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
That happens to me all the time. Or this: "That was the nastiest thing I've read in my life. So I thought of you. D' you want it?"
Katerina Bee - Jan 29, 2004 9:04:19 am PST #666 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Erika! You got the SLUUUUT!
Micole - Jan 29, 2004 9:05:55 am PST #667 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I love the Marianne books. And I've kept The Gate to Women's Country for the rewritten Greek plays and Beauty for the interwoven fairy tales, even though the deformation of story by ideology and ideology by story makes me wish in general that Tepper weren't even close to being on my side of any argument.
I mean, I don't think that homosexuality is bad, gender is an essential trait, or that the horror novel is causing the destruction of the environment, but Tepper and I are kind of both in the feminist-environmentalist-leftist area of the political map.