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Originally Posted by issybird
Not romance, but have you read Joseph Hansen’s Dave Brandstetter series featuring a gay detective? Given that the first book in the series was published in 1970, they were truly groundbreaking - and excellent on their own merits.
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As someone who reads mostly classics I'm in this thread for all the genre fiction recommendations, and this sounds fantastic!
The reason I stay clear of romance fiction and the like is mostly because I'm allergic to the overuse of descriptive wording in dialogues (or lengthy descriptions in general). I can't stand any "..., he sneered" or "..., he said mockingly". And I've gotten the impression that these books are ripe with such descriptive and engaging language. I dislike engaging adverbs and adjectives in books just like I dislike sad piano music in sad scenes in sad movies hinting that I should do well to descend into sadness at this saddest of sad hours.