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What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
Hell's Belle:
--- Quote from: JamiSings on December 16, 2007, 06:56:45 PM ---I've noticed though that they're often the oddballs because it turns out they're part-something or other. Rarely does it seem that the teen is a normal pure bred human being. Which is what I'd like to see. A normal human, who doesn't fit in too well because they don't fit society's standards of behavior or beauty or what have you. Who turns around and saves people without any special powers, special charms, etc. Just whatever normal talents they happen to have and a bit of brain power.
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Oh, I know the type of books you mean. That seems to be the popular bend for characetrs right now. I hope it ends soon. It's tiresome.
The older fiction really doesn't do that.
I thought of another one that has just a plain-Jane heroine (although she's younger- in her teens, I think): Knee-Deep in Thunder.
JamiSings:
--- Quote from: Borealis Belle on December 16, 2007, 07:26:39 PM ---I thought of another one that has just a plain-Jane heroine (although she's younger- in her teens, I think): Knee-Deep in Thunder.
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Yeah, I really want some adult stuff. It's not fair we keep getting left out. We can feel like freaks and oddballs too just as much as any angst-riddled teenager. Sometimes more so because teens you expect and accept it. Adults we hear "Oh get over it."
MonaLS:
--- Quote from: JamiSings on December 16, 2007, 08:44:06 PM ---Yeah, I really want some adult stuff. It's not fair we keep getting left out. We can feel like freaks and oddballs too just as much as any angst-riddled teenager. Sometimes more so because teens you expect and accept it. Adults we hear "Oh get over it."
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So I'm not the only one? :) I felt more comfortable as a teenager because I just wasn't aware of much beside the community I grew up in, sort of like I had blinkers on. Now I do feel like the odd one out a lot.
The Corvidian:
Jami, ever read anything by Charles de Lint?
JamiSings:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on December 17, 2007, 01:03:56 AM ---Jami, ever read anything by Charles de Lint?
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No, but I've seen people checking out his books. I don't have time to read everything.
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