[the_old_crowd] Re: The trouble with Harry

[Kat Macfarlane]

Kneasy, old egg, are you a Tom Holt fan too? I first met him in the continuations to E.F. Benson's Lucia novels. Wonderfully funny but didn't quite have the Benson touch. From there went on to Who's Afraid of Beowulf, Expecting Someone Taller, and Flying Dutch. And it's been all downhill from there.

How are you on the Pterry?

Purrs!

Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!


  --- 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



   

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