Audience-Alienating Premise: Difference between revisions
m
X. Y.
mNo edit summary |
m (X. Y.) |
||
Line 142:
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Lolita]]'' is a prime example of this, to the extent that it's mostly known by the general public as "that novel about pedophilia". Fortunately, its status as a modern classic prevents it from becoming too neglected, but most people unaware of why it's considered so great are likely to pass it up due to the premise. There are also the ones to go to read it [[Dancing Bear|for the prurient content]], all thanks to [[The Film of the Book|the films of the book]] that [[Age Lift|age up]] Dolores and play up her [[Fille Fatale]] tendencies while playing down Humbert's predatory ones (as well as his status as
* [[Stephen King]] withheld ''[[Pet Sematary]]'' from publication for several years because he felt the subject matter made the book unpublishable.
* ''[[Warrior Cats]]''. It's about cute, fluffy cats, living in a very violent fantasy 'verse. It has a public, but it's not composed of the small children that could appreciate cute cats in bloody fights but are turned off by the continuity and the complexity of the verse, nor by the older children and teenagers that could be drawn by the fantasy drama but are turned off by the fluffy cats starring it.
* ''Save The Pearls: Revealing Eden''. It's a YA novel taking place in a dystopian future [[Persecution Flip|where white people are enslaved]] [[Unfortunate Implications|by evil black people]]. Ah, and it turns out that ''[[blackface]] is integral to the plot.''
* The article's opening quote refers to one of the books by [[wikipedia:Willa Cather|Willa Cather]], a prominent female writer for the first half of the
* There was a line of novels for the ''[[Monster High]]'' line of toys, written by the same author of ''[[The Clique]]'', that flopped after a few volumes. It's not difficult to see why: the novels tackled themes way too heavy and indulged in too much fanservice for being acceptable for the younger kids, older readers that could have liked them were aghast reading anything associated with a toy line directed towards little girls, and the fans of the franchise were appalled that the novels didn't follow the official lore and were a [[In Name Only]] effort.
* ''[[Alfie's Home]]''
* The ''[[Gor]]'' novels. A book series where the premise revolves around a society predicating [[Happiness in Slavery]] and that the natural order is that women submit completely to men can only be enjoyed by a particular niche.
| |||