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I struggled with this selection.
While I am well aware my vocabulary is not what it should be I had to have a dictionary close at hand to get through these stories, reading shouldn't be that much work.
I found the sexual elements, both alluded to and actual scenes (in one case the rape of the corpse of a child) completely unnecessary. I understand this author was lauded as a feminist but to me, that kind of sexuality is simply pornography and has zero to do with feminism.
I will say the writing wa ...more
While I am well aware my vocabulary is not what it should be I had to have a dictionary close at hand to get through these stories, reading shouldn't be that much work.
I found the sexual elements, both alluded to and actual scenes (in one case the rape of the corpse of a child) completely unnecessary. I understand this author was lauded as a feminist but to me, that kind of sexuality is simply pornography and has zero to do with feminism.
I will say the writing wa ...more
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