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Originally Posted by Catlady
While I wouldn't call it exploitation, covid was mostly a pointless distraction
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This brings to me a book I recently read and I’m going to add a corollary for non-fiction and historical fiction. The book,
The Facemaker, was a disappointing account of plastic surgery during the Great War and toward the end the author included a potted account of the Spanish flu — which was entirely irrelevant to the issue of plastic surgery to repair battle damage, but was obviously meant to tie it into current events.
So it doesn’t even have to be Covid per se, but an account of any plague or pandemic, a kind of poorly disguised exploitation, especially when as with
Catlady’s and my books, it’s as she said, “shoehorn[ed]” in. I’m belaboring the obvious, but it’s annoying.