Why isn't he more popular?

[rusmeister]

The Gap books practically sealed his fate, imo. It was so different from Covenant and Mordant, with a much greater focus on nasty, That I dropped it after the first book (I finished #1 because I had always loved SRD).

I love Mordant, but the heroine is appallingly dense, and engages in the same psycho-analyzing that everyone else does - as if no character has a simpler view of life.

It's hard for most to get over the rape, and both his whacky language andunusual psychological approach tend to be turn-offs.

(A minor point) Plus there has to be a market in the Bible Belt that he cuts himself out of by a generally radical and unfair portrayal of evangelicals. (Of course this would raise his popularity among people with a virulent hatred of Christianity, so go figure...)

Finally, you do need a few brains to read and understand SRD.

[rusmeister]

The Gap books practically sealed his fate, imo. It was so different from Covenant and Mordant, with a much greater focus on nasty, That I dropped it after the first book (I finished #1 because I had always loved SRD).

I love Mordant, but the heroine is appallingly dense, and engages in the same psycho-analyzing that everyone else does - as if no character has a simpler view of life.

It's hard for most to get over the rape, and both his whacky language andunusual psychological approach tend to be turn-offs.

(A minor point) Plus there has to be a market in the Bible Belt that he cuts himself out of by a generally radical and unfair portrayal of evangelicals. (Of course this would raise his popularity among people with a virulent hatred of Christianity, so go figure...)

Finally, you do need a few brains to read and understand SRD.