Cyan comments on On Juvenile Fiction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 18 March 2009 04:21:29AM *  4 points [-]

his definition of 'porn' as he applies it to Card's writing in that essay would qualify any work I can think of as 'porn', if the reviewer didn't like it.

I have to disagree. The repetitive and episodic nature of the plot is the main point of the "pornography" analogy. Not every lousy book has these features.