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Originally Posted by xg4bx
agreed. it's the only book that i ever came this close to throwing in the garbage. i bought it expecting a clancy-esque techno thriller but instead got a bdsm manual/porn novel. i wasn't offended by it, nor ringo's politics, i just felt like i was sold a bill of goods. nowhere in the description does it say anything about bondage or the like.
at least you stopped before the charming last 1/3 of the novel where the "hero" beats the hell out of and borderline rapes a russian teen then throws cash at her to cover the damages.
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I only recently read this blog entry from 2008:
http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
It's a highly entertaining (and somewhat disturbing) analysis of Ghost, it starts like this:
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Lately, some folks on my f-list have been looking at Lord King Bad profic. [info]brown_betty gave us LEOPARD LORD, and [info]cereta reviewed THE SHEIK, and [info]burger_eater pointed me to Smart Bitches, Trashy Books's take on Shayla Black's DECADENT. These books, it should be admitted, are deeply awful, and as portrayals of their authors' ids, they're more than a little alarming. You don't want to look, but you can't look away. The awfulness becomes sublime.
So why am I commenting about this? Well, because I feel a little like Richard Dreyfuss in JAWS, during the scar scene: "I got that beat. I got that beat."
Permit me to introduce John Ringo.
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