On a positive note - re-reading Wizard of Earthsea (book club is reading LeGuin & these were my introduction)

Tombs of Atuan hit hard at the time & now I realise why. Lonely girl with a weird upbringing! I related but couldn't have told you how at the time. I understand now ;-)

I enjoyed Pern as a teen - I _think_ they are ok - haven't re-read

& good lord - Eddings and his wife - eek!

I fortunately avoided Hubbard but yeah xanth - hmm. I mean in your teens you are exploring and certainly you end up in a lot of places you shouldn't (Gor!!!) - Stranger in a Strange land too

I mean - having just looked "the colour of her panties" !! ugh

ha ha - yes. I read a number of his books as a teen but got increasingly uneasy - I'm pretty sure I've seen essays on this topic as well

He'd ban second jobs and directorships for MPs, and make so much as accepting a curly-wurly whist in or recently having been in public office a criminal offence.

That's obviously not going to happen, but it's the only thing that'll fix this.

He's no doubt a powerful man. But power has its limits, and even powerful men rely for success in abusing others on projecting a degree of strength they don't actually have on call.

If we become scared and hopeless for change, we become willing to defeat ourselves so the powerful don't have to.

Sorry for being pissy about this but it literally does not have to be this hard all you have to do is listen to people who shit is actually happening to because all of this was documented and happened relatively publicly.

It boils my blood to see how one sided the 'debate' is. These people are allowed to frame things in a way that both ignores the facts and makes it impossible to counter

Tony Blair's name is not being mentioned anywhere near enough in regards to the Epstein files