cypher: (mercy is for mortals)
marsupial fruitcake ([personal profile] cypher) wrote in [personal profile] owlmoose 2011-01-15 07:35 pm (UTC)

...If you want my copy of Name of the Wind, I'd be happy to send it to you. I couldn't get through it; after a few hundred pages where women were either idealized (main character's mother) or just not there, he gave us a scene with a woman as a prop, getting sexually harassed by the Draco Malfoy analogue as a convenient way for the main character to further his rivalry with the guy (by "rescuing" her, which she cannot do herself).

It wasn't the only thing that bothered me about the story, but it was definitely the tipping point where I stopped being willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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