Results tagged “Lois McMaster Bujold” from The Cultural Gutter
All That Fairy Tale Nonsense
One
of the many criticisms levelled at romance novels is that they’re a
poor model for women when it comes to real-life relationships. All
that fairy tale nonsense, detractors say, will make women want the
wrong things from their partners. I could list a dozen things wrong
with that assumption, but I’ll limit myself to three.
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Not Cranking Out the Same Old Thing - Is That Good?
After some quite excellent fantasy novels, Lois McMaster Bujold goes for (mostly) romance: "But with this one, she's just gone the Lifetime Channel route."
All That Fairy Tale Nonsense
One
of the many criticisms levelled at romance novels is that they’re a
poor model for women when it comes to real-life relationships. All
that fairy tale nonsense, detractors say, will make women want the
wrong things from their partners. I could list a dozen things wrong
with that assumption, but I’ll limit myself to three.
Not Cranking Out the Same Old Thing - Is That Good?
After some quite excellent fantasy novels, Lois McMaster Bujold goes for (mostly) romance: "But with this one, she's just gone the Lifetime Channel route."

I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."