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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
DNF of Age of Misadventure. Another author goes down the present tense black hole.
Now reading Nevernight by Jay Christoff
Which brings up a question that came up in another less appropriate thread. What are people's feelings about what I would describe as graphic porn in novels that are not sold as erotica?
I mean the book is about a young girl who goes to learn to be an assassin. It's a fantasy world and a political plot, but also inter-relationships among the other acolytes. Fair enough that a romance would come into it, but a blow-by-blow description of a sexual encounter that was obviously written by a man blindsided me halfway through. I don't want to read that!
It's something that comes into a lot of modern books and I really thing they should come with a warning.
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That was something I appreciated about the Book of the Month clubs when I was a member, the fact that they noted graphic sex and violence as I also do not appreciate being blindsided with an unexpected attempt to sexually arouse while engaging in a bit of light reading. The fact that such attempts tend to backfire for me just adds to the annoyance.