At 04:00 PM 11/2/97 +1300, Sam wrote:
>>On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Tomi Makitalo wrote:
[...]
>> ...uhmm.... I can't shout about it, (nor be prowd about it in Public...)
>>but I seem to be into H manag as well... and have a "rather number of H
>>manga than the average person"... and people tells me (warns me? ^_^;) I
>>seem to a "a bit too much" compared to the "normal, everyday" people ^_^;;;
[...]
>I've got to say, I've never really been able to see the point in that sort
>of thing. It just seems rather stupid. Soft porn. Maybe I'm missing the
>point.

        I really can't understand this.  Are you saying that you _can_ see
the point of hardcore porn, but not the softcore porn?

>As yet another reminder of its superiority, I think one of the nice things
>about AMS can be seen in the fanfics. The romantic, non-lemon fanfics are
>*so* much more satisfying to read than the erotic ones.

        Because it is so much harder to write a good erotic story.  Many
lemon fanfic I have found read like vacuum cleaner manual, ie. attach part A
to part B.  That said, I haven't read any fanfic that was all that great
either.  Most tread mediocrity, tending toward to overabundance of cliche
and pathos.  My view that the these fanfics are amateurish should not be
taken as criticism; fanfics are largely amateur creations and they look it.

>Sam

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