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@willaful In print, doing a re-read (30+ years later) of James Clavell's Asian Saga, triggered by a comment from someone on another forum. Expecting the books to be horrifically racist, and indeed the characters are, but the books are more just... about people who are various grades of awful. Listening to Elle Kennedy's latest, "The Graham Effect", which, if you like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you would like. Very on-brand for Kennedy. @romancelandia @romancebooks
@willaful I have friends who are scientists who said they couldn't enjoy e.g. Ali Hazelwood's "Love Hypothesis" because the way the science is portrayed kept knocking them out of the story. So far I've been able to get along with the fictional universities in these college hockey series, like Kennedy's invented Briar U, but for some reason in this book I feel like there are more holes in the scenery than usual.
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@notTheAudience I remember being very annoyed by a Hazelwood book in which an environmental scientist justified her purchases because "duh, recycling!" I.E. the author doesn't know wtf she's talking about.
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@willaful @notTheAudience @romancelandia @romancebooks ROFL, I don't remember that recycling one, but I've definitely had ace spectrum issues with Hazelwood on occasion. I still enjoy other parts, but I'm now thankful I'm not knowledgeable enough about the science community to get bothered by it.
I always find it funny which aspects of books will bother me to the ends of times, and which ones I'll be able to just shrug and accept in order to enjoy the good parts...it surprises me sometimes.