The characterization is thin, with most characters having one trait, continually referred to in order to tell them apart (our red-haired priestess, for example, continually pulls her braid).
I liked that. I'm not going to argue about the validity of "red-haired priestess" because I fully agree that the characterisation is thin. Wafer-thin. Please have the Wheel of Time, Mr. Creosote. It is wafer-thin.
I liked that. I'm not going to argue about the validity of "red-haired priestess" because I fully agree that the characterisation is thin. Wafer-thin. Please have the Wheel of Time, Mr. Creosote. It is wafer-thin.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James on RJ, Goodkind, and Martin
- 07/12/2009 02:48:45 AM
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Pretty sure Nynaeve did not have red hair. Also pretty sure she wasn't a priestess.
- 07/12/2009 02:54:23 AM
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I think it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to an archetype, but yes, there are some errors here 
- 07/12/2009 02:56:00 AM
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- 07/12/2009 02:56:00 AM
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Re: Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James on RJ, Goodkind, and Martin
- 07/12/2009 04:38:07 AM
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Overall, a valid assessment.
- 07/12/2009 02:07:47 PM
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Nynaeve doesn't have red hair! She has brown hair!
- 07/12/2009 09:29:07 PM
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She's not a priestess, either. Other than "red-haired priestess" the rest was 100% valid.
- 08/12/2009 12:39:07 AM
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I mentioned her not being a priestess in my earlier post. 
- 09/12/2009 03:23:12 AM
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- 09/12/2009 03:23:12 AM
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Don't you think that, if that were corrected, the entries would be pretty much valid?
- 09/12/2009 09:12:55 PM
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Agree for the most part. When does the book officially come out?
- 08/12/2009 07:51:39 PM
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Book's been out since the summer, in the UK anyways
- 09/12/2009 02:33:05 AM
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Point taken. Despite not being the target audience, I'd still like to take a look at it.
- 09/12/2009 10:04:38 PM
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Erikson is like Martin? That's ridiculous!
- 09/12/2009 01:43:18 AM
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Influenced isn't the same as 'like'.
- 21/12/2009 06:04:53 PM
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So, you're right because you're right? 
- 28/12/2009 03:25:33 AM
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- 28/12/2009 03:25:33 AM
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Only because I'm willing to be honest even about things that I enjoy. *NM*
- 07/01/2010 06:00:02 PM
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I think fionwe has a point - it's not some kind of literature/non-literature divide.
- 08/01/2010 08:37:31 PM
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Actually, aSoIaF has one of the more accurate depictions of feudalism in modern fantasy. *NM*
- 08/01/2010 07:33:22 PM
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