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bohemianasl 's review for:
The Gate Thief
by Orson Scott Card
OSC has definitely lost his touch. There are whole chapters in this that are so boring, I nearly didn’t finish the book. The world building is overwrought, the characters are dull, and I am just so done with OSC’s pervasive sexism. He even tries to defend the fact that every high school girl friendly young Danny suddenly becomes wanton and begging for sex by saying, “it’s also a fact of human life that there are certain women who are irresistibly drawn to powerful males.” The sexist lens is so thick on this sentiment that it warps the reality of the world around it. First, even if I accept that it’s true (and I don’t), OSC undies his own logic by making literally every female demand sex from Danny. Are they ALL “certain women?” Nonsense.
I’ll finish this next book, but I am unlikely to ever read another OSC book. His sexism, racism and homophobia have ruined his talent. How much better a storyteller he would be if he was capable of realizing that people who differ from him are real, valuable, complex and complete.
I’ll finish this next book, but I am unlikely to ever read another OSC book. His sexism, racism and homophobia have ruined his talent. How much better a storyteller he would be if he was capable of realizing that people who differ from him are real, valuable, complex and complete.