Song for Arbonne SPOILERISH (not very but ISH)

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Alla:

Hope that will work

Zara:
<SNIP>
Also like Snape, he is the antagonist of a mostly likable character.
(Not of the main character, though - the main character is a third
party).

Alla:

And isn't it funny that as Zara knows that after I read the book my 
sympathies were so fully on Urte's side that I hated that mostly 
likable character? ;)



Zara:
The business of the dead musicians *is* a reflection, in part, of a
real difference between his character and Snape's, in my opinion,
which Alla may or may not share. Snape of DH would not in my view
have reacted with deadly violence in response to a comparable
provocation. But it also partly reflects the difference in time,
place, and status of the characters. Urte is a feudal magnate in a
medieval world, nearly the equal of his sovereign. His society does
not view him as a murderer for his action. Nor would his society
consider a duel to the death, a bad way to settle a personal matter.


Alla:

I do share everything you wrote in this paragraph about Urte ;). I 
just 
wanted to add that for some reason I thought that this business of 
killing musicians was sort of murky and unclear to me, but of course 
even if this is exactly what happened society will not think him a 
murderer.

And  you know what I meant about appearances being deceiving of 
killing people


Alla:
> Guy Gavriel Kay " A Song for Arbonne"

zgirnius:
How to describe Kay? We really ought not to say more on the subject
of Urte. <SNIP>


Alla:

Oh, but I want to. Whines.

Wonderful description.





Zara:
Anyway, I would heartily second the recommendation (obviously, since 
> I'm the one who got Alla hooked).
>

Alla:

In your debt dearest