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[flemmings]

I don't have a To Read pile. I have a To Read bookcase. I suppose I'm happy to be making some inroads on it. That said, Quarreling, They Met the Dragon is the kind of book that leaves you feeling slimy. 1984: before anyone knew the tropes of the western yaoi imagination; before, I fancy, the Japanese had even created them for themselves.

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[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I have a to-read list which keeps getting longer and longer. The pile morphed into a bookcase and then has become a little document in the HD which is a good place for it. Some books get read but not as fast as books that keep being added on. Hee!

But yes ... that is an intriguing title! Did they get eaten!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It slimes the way slash does, actually. The haughty aristocratic sadistic middle-aged (natch- she's eeevol) lady has her gigolo (someone else's slave moonlighting) whipped and buggered in the street by her noble lover and her four palanquin bearers; and the slave likes it but hates that he likes it but still likes it but really hates that he likes it so I'll run away to the spacemen's camp outside town in company with the little blond slave who isn't a slave who I hate anyway except I don't hate him but I'm turning him in to the slavers for the reward only somehow I don't but I still hate him OK? because he's blonder and smarter than me, 'cause my author can't write innocence or simplicity to look any different from brain damage.

Bref: don't publish your jerkoff fantasies as fiction

-- 'chronic arguing' may be a sign of true love but it gets old fast

-- and don't get your SF in my fantasy.

Also there are no dragons.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I've never taken it to HD status. I buy books that I might want to read some day, then put them on the shelf where I forget I have them so I can later stumble on them and say Oh hey, today's a perfect day to read this! Of course in very short order this becomes 'I have to start reading some of these books because they look at me reproachfully every time I check this bookcase (or that bookcase or the table in the living room or the table in my bedroom etc etc.)'

I like buying books. That's a clear pleasure. I like reading them a lot less, because the proportion of new and useful is so small and rarely balances the time needed to read it. Manga at least does something other than eat my time. Western anything, not so much.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

Oh, I read this one too -- conjures up vague 80's flash gordon kind of images, except not so camp. Slimy is the word.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh. So it doesn't get better? I hate to admit defeat in the face of a throwaway book but... It was touted atchi-kochi as a book with characters of colour and slashy (sub)text, and I wondered if we were all reading the same book.