I’ll Start: FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON used to be my favorite book in high school. But over time I’ve come to see that it’s far more messed up than I’d originally noticed.
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I’ll add another one: MAGIC’S PAWN by Mercedes Lackey. It still holds a special place in my heart for being one of the earliest things I read with a queer protagonist, but holy CRAP are those books problematic.
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I mean that fair. Though for some it’ll be a relatively small shift. And sometimes I might’ve been to young to really get a book’s meaning, and when I’m older I can better see what they were going for and appreciate it more.
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ERAGON still holds a special place in my heart as one of my first fantasy books, even as I've come to hear some of the criticisms leveled at it.
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I had an interesting Love > eh > Love metamorphosis with Anne Bishop's Black Jewels Trilogy. Love it as a teen, questioned certain intellectual themes as a 20-something, then realized the EMOTIONAL beats were all for trauma survivors, and taken from that perspective it was good.
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The series is all about people who have been scapegoat and cast as evil, and found family and healing. There's some weirdness in how feminism is implemented that gets a solid "eh" from me, but the actual purpose of the book is, "Broken people get healing and love."
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The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. I can't tell you how many times I've read those books as a teenager. As an adult? The gender roles, and how relationships are portrayed are... problematic when it comes to women
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Wheel of Time is what I came here to say too. I tried to reread the first book a few years ago and gave up in rage after about 50 pages.
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Love Lessons, as a pre teen I kinda glossed over the student having a crush on a teacher and babysitting for them but reading it as an adult I'm just like urghh. I think there was a kiss but wow
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