I think it's just that that conversation didn't filter through to the places where I was hearing about the book (which honestly were just Elizabeth Minkel raving about it on Fansplaining plus one queer friend whose taste I trust and who adored the book). Which left me wondering why I was having such a bad reaction to it. Especially since, in the fanfiction sphere, I would be on the other side of the argument of what authors are "allowed" to write about.
Stopping to read the Wikipedia page and seeing what the critical reaction had been at the time was very salutary.
I think I just have bad luck with literary fiction. The last big (non-genre, non-memoir, non-indie) doorstopper I read was Freedom, which was also incredibly frustrating.
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I think it's just that that conversation didn't filter through to the places where I was hearing about the book (which honestly were just Elizabeth Minkel raving about it on Fansplaining plus one queer friend whose taste I trust and who adored the book). Which left me wondering why I was having such a bad reaction to it. Especially since, in the fanfiction sphere, I would be on the other side of the argument of what authors are "allowed" to write about.
Stopping to read the Wikipedia page and seeing what the critical reaction had been at the time was very salutary.
I think I just have bad luck with literary fiction. The last big (non-genre, non-memoir, non-indie) doorstopper I read was Freedom, which was also incredibly frustrating.