I read this list almost religiously....some of you know me
from various boards, netspaces etc..I have spoken to many of
you and email conversations with a few also...not much pulls
me out of lurkdom but this discussion on Torture porn has
been so interesting...it has frustrated me, saddened me, made
me sputter and laugh out loud but I a just had to say that I
do agree here with Allan Guthrie (Two-Way Split was great
btw! ) on Charlie Huston. I have just finished reading the 3
books and I was transported into another world...the graphic
scenes were needed as they made Hank "a real person" and not
just a cartoony character in a book...when he hurt, the
reader knew it...I cared about him. When the books are mostly
all gratuitous action and move so easily from one body slam
to the next it becomes surreal..
I also appreciate the fact that we all read and enjoy
different books and from earlier posts by funkmaster the
darker end of this genre is not really the type of book he
enjoys but again, thank goodness there are so many books out
there..
Patricia back to lurk mode...sorry...carry on ;-)
[to email remove the knot]
----- Original Message -----
From: Allan Guthrie
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Torture Porn
You mean because Huston inflicts the pain
vicariously on the reader? I get
you. I'd still argue that Huston isn't being
sadistic. He's creating a
sensory experience. He's saying that violence
hurts and describing very
effectively how it feels. I admire him enormously
for that. It's much easier
to write from the point of view of the aggressors
and pretend violence
doesn't hurt at all -- which I'd argue is more
akin to sadism.
I do appreciate, though, that whether it's
sadistic or not, you don't like
it.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: <
funkmasterj@runbox.com>
To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Torture Porn
> ----- Start Original Message -----
> Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:06:00 +0100
> From: "Allan Guthrie" <
allan@allanguthrie.co.uk>
> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Torture Porn
>
>> Isn't it masochistic? It's the narrator who's
experiencing the pain. If
>> it
>> was sadistic, he'd be inflicting it.
>
> Sadistic on the part of Huston, the
author
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