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Old 08-09-2009, 04:38 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by KarateMonkey View Post
He notes that it's very un-PC and loaded with explicit "kinky" sex scenes. I thought then "I'm really not interested in reading the work from someone who thinks a book with a scene where the hero brutalizes an unwilling 15 year old prostitue is just 'kinky' and un-PC".
Well, the problem isn't really with the kinky sex scenes. After all, some readers like that kind of thing. The problem is bad writing.

Luckily for John Ringo, there are many people who find his subject matter exciting and aren't all that discriminating about the actual writing itself... ah well.
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