![]() He bullies Jake outrageously, not just when they are school children, but also when he joins the team. He cheats on his wife, and when he gives her an STD, lies and says she must have given it to him. He picks up teenage girls for one night stands knowing full well many of them are underage. It is hard to find a reading of the foursome scene that does not conclude it's rape - Helen says 'no' and is crying. He beats a man unconscious and leaves him tied up and naked, because he was letting down the tires on his car. Rupert Campbell Black is, by any objective standards, unbelievably awful in this book. It is a book with a host of colourful characters, but it is primarily about Rupert Campbell Black. All the debates around 50 Shades, of what it says that women are enjoying reading romance where the relationship is so clearly Evil Bad and Wrong could all have been had just as much with this book, if not more so. Or that's a lie, they are _just_ as comfortable as they once were, but that causes its own guilt. ![]() But oh, I am older now, and read more critically, and they are not as comfortable as they once were. ![]() And indeed, they are still big fat page turning books full of ponies and sex. Big fat page turning books stuffed full of ponies and sex. Remembered so fondly from when I was a teenager. ![]()
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