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Originally Posted by Zipr
Okay, I think I've been misunderstood a bit. The reason I asked the question was because Amazon had it listed in the "Gay and Lesbian" category. That implied to me that it might be a book that was written for that community, as opposed to a mainstream book that might have gay characters.
Despite the trouble that kennyc is trying to stir up by assuming he knows what I'm thinking, I do not have a "strong negative bias". I simply didn't want to read a book that was written solely for the gay community. Because of Amazon's characterization, I was thinking it might be a gay erotic book.
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While I think Kenny did jump your throat a bit, I also think you jumped to conclusions rather quickly. For one thing, how would you define a book written for the 'gay community'? I don't even think it makes sense to talk about a gay community in the sense that you could aim books at them. Secondly, all that m/m romance you see are (almost always) written by straight women for straight women - are they the 'gay community'?. Finally, Amazon's defintion og 'gay and lesbian' is
far wider than 'gay romance' as you seem to think. To be quite honest I thought it was an odd question.
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Originally Posted by Zipr
After reading about Rubyfruit on Wikipedia, I see I was justified in my caution. Does anybody know what "Rubyfruit Jungle" refers to? (it's on Wikipedia).
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I'm sorry, but now I'm beginning to feel you are biased as well.
Rubyfruit Jungle is mainstream/drama/bildungsroman, not genre romance/erotic fiction. And if you've read the first two lines of the Wikipedia article, you'd know what title refers to.