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Originally Posted by HarryT
The series is "Bio of a Space Tyrant"; the book is "Refugee".
I abandoned it. It contains scenes that are distastefully close to paedophilia.
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More than close to, I think. I started to re-read in 2012, and this is what I said then:
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I must admit that the sympathetic depiction of a paedophile in the first chapters worries me more than it did when I first read it (indeed, I'd forgotten it was there). Perhaps because I now know that this theme has appeared in some of his other books.
In fact, I think it now disturbs me enough that I think I'll abandon this and move on to other things, and write off a few items on my TBR list. |