which posits the same "general chaos of the English Civil War" theory for his success. IIRC, on top of everything else, the war left a power vacuum in that area, which made it relatively easy for Hopkins to jump in and do his thing
Yeah, it's not that I disagree with this as a general theory – I'm sure it's quite accurate! It's just that the novel never gets deeper than your one sentence summary (well, maybe plus a bit of mommy-issues in Hopkins's psychology), and when you've got three hundred pages to fill, you start wanting examples and more details. Or at least I do.
Why do dudes write such creepy books?
It was SUCH a dude book. I kept feeling like I was supposed to be offput yet scandalously intrigued by the ~shocking sex scenes~, but they were quite mild and fade-to-black compared to the average fanfic or, hell, romance novel, so it ended up just being underwhelming.
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Date: 2017-11-03 06:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's not that I disagree with this as a general theory – I'm sure it's quite accurate! It's just that the novel never gets deeper than your one sentence summary (well, maybe plus a bit of mommy-issues in Hopkins's psychology), and when you've got three hundred pages to fill, you start wanting examples and more details. Or at least I do.
Why do dudes write such creepy books?
It was SUCH a dude book. I kept feeling like I was supposed to be offput yet scandalously intrigued by the ~shocking sex scenes~, but they were quite mild and fade-to-black compared to the average fanfic or, hell, romance novel, so it ended up just being underwhelming.