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maderr(Read: Another rant on Things In Books That Bother Megan)
Guys like to kill. I'mdead serious. If you put a book in front of me, stripped of author name, I could probably tell you easy if it was male or female. There are various differences b/t the sexes - the things that are payed attention to, the way fights are described occasionally, the way women are portrayed vs. how men are portrayed, the littel details added, the ones left out. And the body count. Men seem to have this overwhelming *need* to kill off....I'd say roughly 1/4th of their characters - and that's just the major and minor. I'm not even talking the less-than-minor.
It wouldn't bug me except for the most parts the deaths seem unnecessary. Like the book I'm reading now. Stormbringer, and I don't know where my bad is so I can't tell you the author right now. Anyway - this one whole scenario where two "bad" brothers turn heroic b/c they don't like to see a woman and child killed. The older brother is all for it, the younger didn't want to get involved - but did b/c he loves his brother. Anyway (be warned of spoilers, I suppose) the younger brother dies. Now, it would have been fine if the death had made his brother or someone else realize something. But everything was already known - or told and accepted in a way that the death served no purpose. Seriously. Nothing was gained or learned by the death. It was like the writer was like "well, it's been about thirty pages. better kill someone."
An exception to the "men like to kill things" rule would be Mercedes Lackey. Except she doesn't seem obsessed with death so much as obsessed with spelling out for the reader how inherently tragic and difficult a life the Heralds have. Killing them is just a way to emphasize those facts.
I think it's obvious why I never got into English as a vocation.
Mostly I'm just pouty b/c I *loveloveheartlove* the guy whose....real name is escaping me -_-; but his 'soul name' is Stormbringer and I love him so very much and I just know he's going to die and I don't want him to die and argh. *pout* I've decided the fact that I'm reading this book is all![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rykaine's fault. (And if he does die Sammie? No cookie for you. Ever.)
Speaking of reading. I plan on taking in one of the HP books on audio to work - I bet I'm going to get some really weird looks when I start snickering and laughing and whatnot. I'm already getting them for my inherent geekdom that keeps me from participating in coversations about sex, booze, and gods know what else these people do on the weekends.
Guys like to kill. I'm
It wouldn't bug me except for the most parts the deaths seem unnecessary. Like the book I'm reading now. Stormbringer, and I don't know where my bad is so I can't tell you the author right now. Anyway - this one whole scenario where two "bad" brothers turn heroic b/c they don't like to see a woman and child killed. The older brother is all for it, the younger didn't want to get involved - but did b/c he loves his brother. Anyway (be warned of spoilers, I suppose) the younger brother dies. Now, it would have been fine if the death had made his brother or someone else realize something. But everything was already known - or told and accepted in a way that the death served no purpose. Seriously. Nothing was gained or learned by the death. It was like the writer was like "well, it's been about thirty pages. better kill someone."
An exception to the "men like to kill things" rule would be Mercedes Lackey. Except she doesn't seem obsessed with death so much as obsessed with spelling out for the reader how inherently tragic and difficult a life the Heralds have. Killing them is just a way to emphasize those facts.
I think it's obvious why I never got into English as a vocation.
Mostly I'm just pouty b/c I *loveloveheartlove* the guy whose....real name is escaping me -_-; but his 'soul name' is Stormbringer and I love him so very much and I just know he's going to die and I don't want him to die and argh. *pout* I've decided the fact that I'm reading this book is all
rykaine's fault. (And if he does die Sammie? No cookie for you. Ever.)Speaking of reading. I plan on taking in one of the HP books on audio to work - I bet I'm going to get some really weird looks when I start snickering and laughing and whatnot. I'm already getting them for my inherent geekdom that keeps me from participating in coversations about sex, booze, and gods know what else these people do on the weekends.
