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I expect this will generate a few well-reasoned, rational comments around the web-o-sphere.
The author claims she is is fed up with increasing levels of “sadistic misogyny” in crime fiction and says authors are simply jumping on the bandwagon to get a bestseller.
“Each psychopath is more sadistic than the last and his victims’ sufferings are described in detail that becomes ever more explicit as young women are imprisoned, bound, eaten, starved, suffocated, stabbed, boiled or burned alive,” she told the Observer.
“Authors must be free to write and publishers to publish. But critics must be free to say when they have had enough. So however many more outpourings of sadistic misogyny are crammed on to the bandwagon, no more will be reviewed by me,” she added.
And the most disturbing plots are by female authors, she says.
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October 26th, 2009 at 11:39 am
It’s interesting to see this sort of thing in both film and story – violence pornography, really, for the sake of itself. I wonder if this is the natural development for the crime genre, in which women are consistently villanized even in early valuations.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the readership for “torture-porn” suspense novels are women, too. Certainly, everyone I know who reads them is female.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:06 am
This is a personal choice. Torture porn is AOK in my book. So is not wanting to read it.