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There was one science fiction series I stuck with into the third fat paperback, at which point there was a scene so brutally sadistic and leeringly misogynistic that, not only did I drop the series flat, but I was at a loss as to how to dispose of the books, as I could not in good conscience allow them to pass from my hands into anyone else's. I have no idea what I ended up doing with them: probably just sent them to the landfill.
The books were only mediocre science fiction in the first place, so definitely not worth the cost of having that scene placed in my head, largely without warning. At the risk of directing someone toward the series, but in the interest of warning others away, it was The Middle Kingdom series, about a future overpopulated Earth ruled by authoritarian Chinese traditionalists.
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