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Hero vs. Heroine
Starbeam:
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*Wookiee
Pet peeve of mine.
Also, everyone always says vampires are done. At a small con I went to last March, Jim's editor was there and said that editors say they don't want vampire stories because they've been done and overdone. But they keep getting published because people keep buying them.
Apocrypha:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on January 07, 2011, 01:50:21 PM ---Also, everyone always says vampires are done. At a small con I went to last March, Jim's editor was there and said that editors say they don't want vampire stories because they've been done and overdone. But they keep getting published because people keep buying them.
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It sucks when what sells isn't what's really good.
Serack:
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Edited to remove content that may bring negativity to the boards.
Nickeris86:
A pet peeve of mine with female characters is that in a lot of cases the author (regardless of their gender) turns them into nymphos. one very clear example of this is the Anita Blake series. Started out with a good strong but humanly flawed character who is now nothing more than a whiny super being who has more sex than plot development. Sex is fine in a book but not at the expense of plot.
As for Vampires, I still like them but hate how they are being portrayed as tragic hero's fighting against their vile nature, most of the time they just come out as whiny little dicks. If your going to have a vampire as a hero then they shouldn't just forget that they are predatory beings. I imagine vampires as kind of like cats, not evil but a little sadistic.
Snowleopard:
I agree with you N86 - why can't a woman achieve something with more than just sex. Sigh.
Because I'd heard just this complaint about the Anita Blake tales - I've never gotten into them.
Would just irritate me.
Another thing, which JB does so well - is when he's doing a wise-assed, smart mouthed woman she's just that - a smart ass like Harry. Too many authors and people who do TV scripts when they write a smart assed woman she turns out to be bitchy not mouthy - and there is a great and obvious deference between the two.
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