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Otherwise I don't have any particular triggers, but graphic torture scenes are not my cup of tea, even if it's adult humans torturing other adult humans. It just turns my stomach. And I've read some really detailed descriptions of torture over the years. Still horrible. Last edited by Sirtel; 08-20-2022 at 12:32 PM. |
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The degree and timing of lockdown varied from place to place, as did degree of compliance.
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I remember after September 11th reading about how TV shows set in New York City handled it. I think NYPD Blue at least referenced it in some way since it was a drama about cops, while Friends, as a sitcom, did not address it at all.
I could imagine authors handling Covid similarly - the book I returned was from a series about police investigations so the author probably wanted to be realistic by including Covid. But perhaps someone writing cozy mysteries or small-town romance might avoid it to keep the feel-good vibe going. |
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Here's an example of an author (a golfer, no less) exploiting the Covid-19 crisis:
https://www.amazon.com/Moses-Predict...ustomerReviews One review is funny, but the rest seem to have been written by friends of Kermit. Now, writers are supposed to anticipate large scale disasters. Notwithstanding Dean Koontz's novel, The Eyes of Darkness, it appears that movies and video games (The Division) got the jump on books. We'll probably see some retrospective novels in the next three years. That's fine too, with Lawrence Block covering the story from the NYC viewpoint. |
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This is why doesthedogdie.com is a thing.
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I never heard of it before. In looking at it, I don't think it would be valuable to me. I searched for the book I referred to in my earlier comment, and there's a list of potentially upsetting items that, yes, are included in the book, but because I've read the book, I know most of them were mentioned in passing and were not graphic in any way. Context matters--at least for me. This list would put me off reading anything but cereal boxes.
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As an example, John Scalzi did the covid thing in "The Kaiju Preservation Society". It came up by page two or three of the book IIRC. That immediately alerted me that this may not be the book for me. But luckily, not a big deal was made of it and it was not central to the plot and thus ruinous of the book. Just a casual mention. But so close to the start of the book - that was a bit of a slip-up by the author I think.
I did enjoy the book however. Of similar concern to me was the they/them-ness of one of the characters. I don't really care what people call themselves. But being an older individual, I associate they/them with plural, and it shocks me right out of the story to see an individual referred to in the plural. My brain can't help but think, "Doesn't this author know the basics of the English language?" Every time I ran into a covid or a they/them reference in the book, it pulled me right out of the imaginative world of the story, and into the things happening in the real world. There goes the escapism of the story, and I'm right back into current events. For me, this destroys the story. If done too often, or too preachy, the book gets abandoned. |
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I read the Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman the year the pandemic hit. It’s a historical fictional account of the Spanish Flu. It was a eerie read. Timing was weird too given she had to have started the book before CoVID.
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About the OP: I almost never read books that take place in the here and now. So, any books that I'd read now would take place in the future and they might reference it. But would I read a fiction book set during that period if I read those kind of books? Yes. Simply because I love to read/hear stories about how others got through that time. |
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