I won't try to convince you to read it XD but I do consider Bakker's books to be a freaking good fantasy series. At the top tier of it, even. That doesn't mean it doesn't have flaws, of course, nor that the handling of sexism is perfect, but it's a far call from being the kind of dreck I assume the Sword of Truth to be.
Including the idea of a pedophiliac "hero"...only because I got sick of kid-touching being used for automatic villain-hate That would sure take a lot of work. If you really enjoy subversion of clichés, let me rec you Joe Abercrombie's The First Law series. One of his main character is a crippled guy by torture turned Inquisitor himself. It starts reading like Eddings and then getting every clichés gloriously subverted ♥ (nb: I do love reccing books to people, oh yes, I do. ^^)
Sorry, but this sounded just like Goodkind's writing. Hey, i'm willing to believe you. My description also might not do justice to the series. Or maybe you're right about the similarity but my biais against Goodking won't let me know of that.
Oh, and I find the idea of a prostitute who enjoys her work to be more of a bad thing than a good thing, as it's a common male fallacy that women "enjoy" various degrees of sexual victimization, from outright rape to the financial coercion of prostitution. Well, yes. Of course. And it's a tribute to Bakker's writing that he managed to write that Esmenet was occasionnaly able to enjoy the sex she did as part of the trade she did without having much choice in it without him writing it as Esmenet was a slut who was a whore simply because she liked sex so much.
I'd like to see these men sell buttsex for a night and tell me how much they liked it, and how healthy their sense of "owning their bodies" is. You just haven't read enough badly written slash fanfics, have you?
Bakker actually has several male characters get raped in his novels, BTW.
No, I don't hate men, but I hate the ignorance and male privilege many seem prone to spouting. Oh dear, don't worry about that here, please. I hope I don't have on my flist anyone idiotic enough to call someone a man-hater simply for talking about misogyny and male priviledge.
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Including the idea of a pedophiliac "hero"...only because I got sick of kid-touching being used for automatic villain-hate
That would sure take a lot of work. If you really enjoy subversion of clichés, let me rec you Joe Abercrombie's The First Law series. One of his main character is a crippled guy by torture turned Inquisitor himself. It starts reading like Eddings and then getting every clichés gloriously subverted ♥
(nb: I do love reccing books to people, oh yes, I do. ^^)
Sorry, but this sounded just like Goodkind's writing.
Hey, i'm willing to believe you. My description also might not do justice to the series. Or maybe you're right about the similarity but my biais against Goodking won't let me know of that.
Oh, and I find the idea of a prostitute who enjoys her work to be more of a bad thing than a good thing, as it's a common male fallacy that women "enjoy" various degrees of sexual victimization, from outright rape to the financial coercion of prostitution.
Well, yes. Of course. And it's a tribute to Bakker's writing that he managed to write that Esmenet was occasionnaly able to enjoy the sex she did as part of the trade she did without having much choice in it without him writing it as Esmenet was a slut who was a whore simply because she liked sex so much.
I'd like to see these men sell buttsex for a night and tell me how much they liked it, and how healthy their sense of "owning their bodies" is.
You just haven't read enough badly written slash fanfics, have you?
Bakker actually has several male characters get raped in his novels, BTW.
No, I don't hate men, but I hate the ignorance and male privilege many seem prone to spouting.
Oh dear, don't worry about that here, please. I hope I don't have on my flist anyone idiotic enough to call someone a man-hater simply for talking about misogyny and male priviledge.