The trouble with Harry

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Mike & Susan Gray" <mikesusangray at ...> wrote:
> 
> But I think, in general, that you won't very often find many modern
> narrative with a clear protagonist-antogonist structure in which the
> protagonist clearly outclasses everyone else. That would tend to detract
> from suspense and also from the reader's ability to identify with the
> protagonist. Also, fantasy stories are very often *also* Bildungsromane, in
> which case the protagonists can hardly start out the story on top of the
> world, even if they (like Ged) eventually get there.
> 

There's one that springs to mind.
Atypical, though.
Might even be thought of as subverting the genre (now where have
I heard that phrase before?) or even *gasp* poking fun at the genre.
Jason Derry - erstwhile compulsory Hero of Tom Holt's 'Ye Gods!'
Mind you, as he's semi-devine he starts with a bit of an advantage.

Kneasy