Comments on: Arrested Development http://tleaves.com/2004/10/08/arrested-development/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Homer the Poet http://tleaves.com/2004/10/08/arrested-development/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Homer the Poet Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:01:58 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=206#comment-633 I thought she was coming on to you. I thought she was coming on to you.

]]> By: Faisal N. Jawdat http://tleaves.com/2004/10/08/arrested-development/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Faisal N. Jawdat Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:47:44 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=206#comment-632 What I find depressing is that the "that's something for kids, right" attitude sometimes extends to reading of plain text books. To Pete's comment: this is a general problem with genre cross-overs, and Atwood's book wasn't sold into the sci-fi market. There is actually some decent work in the romance market, but people who write romance plots in sci-fi (or, more usually these days, fantasy) don't read romance novels ("ewwww!"), so they write hackneyed nonsense. Fortunately sci-fi/fantasy readers don't generally read romance novels either, so they don't feel their intelligence is being insulted. What I find depressing is that the “that’s something for kids, right” attitude sometimes extends to reading of plain text books.

To Pete’s comment: this is a general problem with genre cross-overs, and Atwood’s book wasn’t sold into the sci-fi market. There is actually some decent work in the romance market, but people who write romance plots in sci-fi (or, more usually these days, fantasy) don’t read romance novels (“ewwww!”), so they write hackneyed nonsense. Fortunately sci-fi/fantasy readers don’t generally read romance novels either, so they don’t feel their intelligence is being insulted.

]]> By: psu http://tleaves.com/2004/10/08/arrested-development/comment-page-1/#comment-631 psu Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:02:29 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=206#comment-631 It's funny you mention Atwood. Her novel, The Handmaid's Tale was some of the most cliched SF I ever read, and yet was hailed as this great serious book. What a bunch of crap. It’s funny you mention Atwood. Her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale was some of the most cliched SF I ever read, and yet was hailed as this great serious book. What a bunch of crap.

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