tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post5161458277340182117..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: Cages, binaries, toxic masculinityPatrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-64118513606688379852016-10-02T00:55:37.295-04:002016-10-02T00:55:37.295-04:00We read The Pearl in eighth grade. My fucking GOD ...We read The Pearl in eighth grade. My fucking GOD what a brutal trip that was. Trigger warning: any illusions you have about the world being a good place will be mercilessly shattered.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-81970166886857872932016-10-02T00:51:49.086-04:002016-10-02T00:51:49.086-04:00Hard to say.
There was a lot of other stuff worki...Hard to say.<br /><br />There was a lot of other stuff working against Cages, though: it was published by an imprint that was apparently floundering from the start and was shuttered a few years later, and the book itself was a good (but not GREAT) debut by an author who never published again. If Covert had written a couple more books that got more/better coverage, interest in his back catalogue may have found him more readers.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-16679351564992692552016-09-22T11:17:33.658-04:002016-09-22T11:17:33.658-04:00Man, we read books in 8th grade about all kinds of...Man, we read books in 8th grade about all kinds of nasty shit - child abuse, rape, suicide, holocaust - complete with a discussion of the social tools that engineer these things. But any instance of non-heterosexuality was really not brought up. I think times have changed now, what with shifting public views and a new generation of YA writers capable of sanitizing this stuff for a mass audience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-23400127665193025592016-09-16T21:51:47.199-04:002016-09-16T21:51:47.199-04:00If the book did the best it could to advertise as ...If the book did the best it could to advertise as edgy and hip, I wonder whether this might have been exactly its problem?<br />The audience attracted by the back might have been the one telling all their friends about that shitty 'gay book' they bought, and the ones who might have been more interested in the actual content might have been put off by the back.<br /><br />But i guess at that time, you could hardly advertise the book with any stench of queerness.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705789140266952731noreply@blogger.com