From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   Dorothy J Heydt  wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence Block, who back in the day wrote lots of whodunits and   
   > also wrote a monthly essay for one of the writers' magazines on   
   > how to write fiction (generally, everything else in the book was   
   > about how to write nonfiction and how to sell it to the editor   
   > before you had written it).  One of his essays was titled "Let's   
   > Hear It for Sex and Violence!"  He gave a couple of sample   
   > paragraphs full of sex and violence, and then said, "You'd go on   
   > reading, wouldn't you?"  No, I wouldn't.   
      
   I probably wouldn't have either.   
      
   I read a Lawrence Block book once, and I did actually finish it, but I   
   didn't pick up any more Lawrence Block books, because I prefer my   
   mysteries not to have utterly pointless sex scenes inserted in them.   
      
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