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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janos Antero" data-source="post: 708605" data-attributes="member: 4480">What gets me about Greenwood really isn't the sex.  I'm a fan of Ann Rice among others, and highly enjoy sexual encounters in literature.My biggest gripe about Greenwood is the juvenile way he handles nudity.  It leaves the feel of early DnD campaigns with 13 year old DMs going through puberty.  The overemphasis on Storm having her clothing blown off repeatedly by silverfire, or the way it is constantly mentioned that X monster ripped her clothing off barring her breasts.Greenwood handles sex in a very tasteless peek-a-boo manner that constantly makes me wonder if he's projecting.  It detracts from his books a great deal because of his style of writing.In Crown of Fire Shandra is stripped naked by her spellfire 18 times within the first 150 pages, and ogled each time by at least one other person in the area.  (It was an inside joke that a friend and I counted).  Now, that's excessive to say the least in my mind.  Sure she's a beautiful character, has a loving husband, etc etc.But why did he feel the need to mention that she was naked in front of strangers 18 times?  Ok, she uses spellfire, she's stripped, I get it, that’s neat, the first few times strangers get a peek it's mildly entertaining, but by the 18th?  Eesh, am I reading a wannabe Daniel Steel, or epic fantasy?Basically Greenwood seems to have penial size issues tied up in Elminster and his other pet characters where he lives out a little fantasy.  He's a good writer for the most part, but personally I think he needs to grow up a little in writing his sexual encounters, so they stop coming off like a 13 year old fantasy to see a naked woman.Making a godly powerful munchkin to protect the realms is a great idea.  Making that same individual the pet of the goddess, and that she has 7 beautiful daughters whom he is intimate with (if not necessarily sexually, I'll leave that point for debate).Then have the women constantly end up naked repeatedly...Anyone else seeing the same sort of issues?*Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud*</blockquote>

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