JCO: RE: RE: Female of the Species

"I haven't
read these particular stories, but it sounds like JCO is raising serious
issues here, and doing it in the form of telling good stories. Why on earth
would there be anything wrong with that, and why should any reader feel
uncomfortable, as this reviewer seems to have done, in enjoying the book?"

Maybe the "uncomfortable" feeling on the part of this reviewer comes from
the issues themselves as well as the fact that JCO has the nerve to raise
them and do it in a genre form of all things. How dare she! <g>

I am often left with an altered view of human nature at the close of some of
JCO's more poignant and disturbing stories. This is one of the reasons I
read her work. Some people, evidently, don't want their little worlds rocked
by the fiction they read. Go figure.

Kim

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