I suppose if you are not aware that there are women in fandom, and are not aware that fandom involves many different kinds of activities then there is a value in the book but there is a potentially much better book about women and fandom out there, I think, even allowing for the problems of such a book being written by practitioners who may not be accustomed to non-fiction prose writing, or analytical writing.
EDIT: Actually that is overly harsh. I was engaged and interested through the first few essays, it's just that I felt they began to get repetitious and the vast majority were not adding anything to the material that had come before. It was too long for its message, rather than having no message.
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Date: 2011-06-28 10:43 am (UTC)EDIT: Actually that is overly harsh. I was engaged and interested through the first few essays, it's just that I felt they began to get repetitious and the vast majority were not adding anything to the material that had come before. It was too long for its message, rather than having no message.