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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote in [personal profile] melannen 2017-06-21 04:12 am (UTC)

The only one of these I've read is "Magic's Pawn" by Mercedes Lackey, and I put "Fuck" because I do think it important to the history of the genre and I did like it as a youth and as a very goody-two-shoes-teenage-girl I got a thrill of delight reading it.* OTOH, like many of Lackey's books it does tend to be message-heavy, and there's a lot better quality fanfic out there. I have a copy of that trilogy for sentimental reasons, and I do think that people should read it because it was important at the time and it is a decent book. But it's not so important or so good as to warrant shelf space on a private library unless you have sentimental attachment or just really love Lackey's writing.

*(My parents didn't have any content rules for reading with me, mostly because they didn't need them; the one time they ever objected was when, at age 12 or so, I brought home a dracula book from the library that I didn't realize at the time was an excuse for horror erotica. But the thing was, I was such a goody-two-shoes that they didn't NEED to set content boundaries for me, because I did it myself.)

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