Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (December 27, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739324543
ISBN-13: 978-0739324547
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 6.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,688,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #50 in Books > Books on CD > Authors, A-Z > ( B ) > Brown, Sandra #3293 in Books > Books on CD > General #98868 in Books > Romance > Contemporary
I know, I know. We don't read romance novels to be politically correct. Sexy Cads are expected to cling to a sexual double standard. ("Good girls don't put out. Ergo, my dozens of lovers deserve my contempt.")That goes double for vintage reprints set in the 70's and 80's. So I shrugged off the reviews that panned 'Long Time Coming,' calling it sexist...Whoa, Nellie! Sexist isn't even the word for it.Get this: our 'hero,' upon learning that he fathered a son 15 years ago during a forgotten fling with a 16-year-old virgin, refers to the girl as a "slut." He goes on to explain, "I did what any young man would do when a girl is giving it away."It's bad enough that he says this to her sister, during the same conversation where he has just learned that the slut died four years after giving birth to his son. What's worse is that the sister - sweet, self-sacrificing Marnie - agrees with him, if not in so many words."It wasn't your fault," she says, as if the male half of the team that caused Sharon's pregnancy had expressed some remorse. "Sharon was wild and rebellious."Later, recalling that ill-fated summer interlude with nostalgia, hero Law Kinkaid scornfully refers to Marnie - who was 14 at the time - as a "Goody Two-Shoes" who refused to go along when he talked rebellious Sharon into drinking beer and skinny-dipping.We're told that Sharon died in a car wreck she caused while driving drunk - but there's no acknowledgement of any complicity on the part of the older lover who talked an underage minister's daughter into drinking for the first time.
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