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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Because we had this conversation a while back over a certain author maligned by others and we were on opposite sides on that one.
The objections were about the use of the term "raghead".
Just checking to see if that one book/author was representative or an exception.
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Oh, the John Ringo thing, right? In that case, I found the depiction of overt racism in the modern US army extremely offensive. If that's an accurate portrayal of the way that US soldiers really behave (which I honestly don't believe), it's disturbing; if it's inaccurate, why put it in? Either way, I found the book unpleasant. There are very few books that I abandon, but that was one, and I'm certainly not a "sensitive" reader.
Of course the attitudes depicted in a book aren't a reflection of the attitudes of the author (most writers of murder mysteries are not murderers), but I've disliked a lot of Ringo's recent books because of the xenophobic plot-lines. Presumably there are people who like them, or they wouldn't sell, but they're not for me, and that's a great pity, because I really enjoyed much of his earlier work.