quote from Katy Munger:
> One of the mystery genre's most annoying pretensions
is the current
> notion that extreme violence is somehow
groundbreaking or, even worse,
> feminist if a female author depicts it. Such
passages are usually either
> boring or offensive...
************** I would deduce from this that extreme violence
might be conducive to great literature, which seems to always
border on being either boring or offensive. I prefer
offensive, myself.
miker
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