Eh, I'm sorta there too. I generally don't care for books centred around a romantic conflict, unless there are wider repercussions to that romantic conflict. Like, say, A Fine and Private Place's major conflicts could be termed romantic, but being in the relationship or out of it isn't...the referent? It's both itself and a symbol for the question of being alive, being dead. How much you engage with the world, and what the benefits and drawbacks of that engagement are.
*steers comment off tangent*
It's when the romance is the be-all and end-all, unexamined, I think, that I am not the reader for the book. But what I find puzzling and, I admit, a little funny, is how most of the discourse has jumped over "I am not the reader for this book" straight into "EEEEVIL".
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Date: 2008-09-24 07:07 pm (UTC)*steers comment off tangent*
It's when the romance is the be-all and end-all, unexamined, I think, that I am not the reader for the book. But what I find puzzling and, I admit, a little funny, is how most of the discourse has jumped over "I am not the reader for this book" straight into "EEEEVIL".