Anonymous
10/26/2022 21:54
Subject: Favorite character or type of character?
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Anonymous
10/26/2022 06:37
Subject: Favorite character or type of character?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:complex anti-heros
Mme Flaubert, etc
I like this in concept but I've seen it executed better in comics and movies then in novels. It's too easy for the anti hero to just be a jerk or evil. I'm thinking about a series I just reread by Michael Sullivan (the Rivera Chronicles) and the two main characters have something of this, but sometimes it's pushed too much towards wanting to call them heroes and sometimes towards wanting to call them villans.
I know this is a book thread. But I just watched Daredevil the series on Netflix and he's either a hero or an anti hero, but it's a difficult line to see because he wants to do the right thing but not through certain means but even then he sometimes is willing to do really bad things g to bad people. I honestly wish it was a book so I could get even more into the characters.
You've read Madame Flaubert?
DP. Can we try to keep tedious DCUM snobbery and one-upsmanship out of one forum at least….
It was a genuine question. Obviously that poster (you?) has not read it, hence the strange, defensive attempt to deflect.
Anonymous
10/25/2022 22:17
Subject: Re:Favorite character or type of character?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I read a lot of books along the lines of "woman is dissatisfied with her life so she does something radical to shake up her life, then lives happily ever after."
Have you read Folly by Laurie King (The author of the Mary Russell novels)?
Thank you for the suggestion. I had not heard of this author before. My library does not have that exact book in their inventory, but they do have several by that author. The book summaries I read on line sound intriguing. I will check her out. Thanks again.