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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I find the bulk of her writings anchored in a crude intellectualism, without the softening compassion that is needed for Great Literature.
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I met Joanna, back when. She was intense and committed.
I'm not sure whether I'd consider her intellectualism "crude", but she was coming from a position and had an agenda.
I'd call _Picnic On Paradise_ and some of her short fiction worth reading. I found _The Female Man_ worth reading, too, but I knew what I was in for going in, and made the required allowances.
From where I sit, Joanna displays a rather common failing. She's operating from a theoretical premise, and everything must somehow be made to fit the theory or simply discarded. Questioning of the
theory largely doesn't happen.
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Dennis