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Jun. 30th, 2010 03:37 pm( last week I read my 65th new book of the year! )
Today I'm reading Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy (thank you![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
caramarie, who lent it to me). Towards the end of the novel, but I hope non-spoilery, is a quote that I'm pulling out and sharing because I think it exemplifies the concept of women in refrigerators, why it's bad, and what creators can do to guard against it. (Names have been excised so it's not spoilery. Bold emphasis mine, italic his..)
That can pretty much stand as is, I think. I just wanted to shout out to what I think is a very good, very simple analysis of the problem.
Today I'm reading Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy (thank you
caramarie, who lent it to me). Towards the end of the novel, but I hope non-spoilery, is a quote that I'm pulling out and sharing because I think it exemplifies the concept of women in refrigerators, why it's bad, and what creators can do to guard against it. (Names have been excised so it's not spoilery. Bold emphasis mine, italic his..)"He used my wife and child as a weapon against me. In order to do so, he had to kill them. He took my family's death and he made it about me. When you die, it will be your death and yours alone. Let it come to you on your own terms."
-- Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant (HarperCollins: London 2007), p 344
That can pretty much stand as is, I think. I just wanted to shout out to what I think is a very good, very simple analysis of the problem.
