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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks Lex and Charlie. I completely agree about books being subjective, and I&#039;m quite sure some people will be able to read and enjoy the work for the story without being bumped from it. Charlie, I hear you on the reasons for discriminatory writing. Given the at this particular novel is present day and the historical section is fictionalised (there is no concrete proof Marlowe was homosexual, it&#039;s a theory, as with Shakespeare), my reading is inclined towards the latter.

I do put books down (some sooner than others), the annoying thing with this one is that it was so great up unto those end sections, and with only a hundred pages to go I thought it was worth finishing to see the plot resolution, even if I didn&#039;t care for the author&#039;s tone in a number of places.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Lex and Charlie. I completely agree about books being subjective, and I&#8217;m quite sure some people will be able to read and enjoy the work for the story without being bumped from it. Charlie, I hear you on the reasons for discriminatory writing. Given the at this particular novel is present day and the historical section is fictionalised (there is no concrete proof Marlowe was homosexual, it&#8217;s a theory, as with Shakespeare), my reading is inclined towards the latter.</p>
<p>I do put books down (some sooner than others), the annoying thing with this one is that it was so great up unto those end sections, and with only a hundred pages to go I thought it was worth finishing to see the plot resolution, even if I didn&#8217;t care for the author&#8217;s tone in a number of places.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just adding my two penn&#039;orth. I&#039;ve not read this particular book, so this is generalised.

There are two excuses for what I&#039;ll call discriminatory writing. Either it reflects the era the author wrote in (Dorothy L Sayers&#039; stuff has some really offensive elements but that&#039;s a mirror to the prevalent attitudes of her day) or the characters&#039; attitudes are holding up that same mirror. (I prefer, even though it&#039;s painful, to see characters speaking and thinking as they probably would have done in the past rather than spouting ideas/attitudes which are too modern.)

Final point - I&#039;ve got to the age that, if I don&#039;t enjoy a book, I just give up on it. Too many good things to read, instead.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just adding my two penn&#8217;orth. I&#8217;ve not read this particular book, so this is generalised.</p>
<p>There are two excuses for what I&#8217;ll call discriminatory writing. Either it reflects the era the author wrote in (Dorothy L Sayers&#8217; stuff has some really offensive elements but that&#8217;s a mirror to the prevalent attitudes of her day) or the characters&#8217; attitudes are holding up that same mirror. (I prefer, even though it&#8217;s painful, to see characters speaking and thinking as they probably would have done in the past rather than spouting ideas/attitudes which are too modern.)</p>
<p>Final point &#8211; I&#8217;ve got to the age that, if I don&#8217;t enjoy a book, I just give up on it. Too many good things to read, instead.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think you&#039;re being too touchy. All reading is subjective. You&#039;re entitled to feel the way you do especially since you can cite instances where the author&#039;s devices and tone dumped you out of the story, which makes you right of course. Now, that doesn&#039;t mean you&#039;re right in general because maybe it didn&#039;t dump ME out of the story. It just means books are subjective and you&#039;re entitled to how the book made you feel whether no one else agrees or not.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re being too touchy. All reading is subjective. You&#8217;re entitled to feel the way you do especially since you can cite instances where the author&#8217;s devices and tone dumped you out of the story, which makes you right of course. Now, that doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re right in general because maybe it didn&#8217;t dump ME out of the story. It just means books are subjective and you&#8217;re entitled to how the book made you feel whether no one else agrees or not.</p>
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