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From: Troels Forchhammer <Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rereading the pern novels
Date: 11 Jun 2005 17:21:20 GMT
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barbarajfn@newsguy.com (Barbara Needham) enriched us with:
>
> Freezer <freezer8SPAMTHIS8@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I second Robinton - the template of nearly all of Anne's older
>> male characters - even if MoP loaded him down with backstory.
>> (Jnf znxvat Pnzb uvf fba strictly necessesary or even that
>> interesting?)
>
> No.
And yet . . .
> I did NOT like MHoP very much.
Me neither, to tell the truth. It seemed oddly out of place to me.
<snip>
> His relationship with the girl was Ok and very sad when she died
> but somehow the rest of his love life was kind of out of place,
> not just the part you mention.
>
> I liked him way better in ALL the other books.
In some ways I can appreciate why it was necessary -- Robinton had
become too good to be true, and she possibly felt she had to introduce
some flaws in him; and a lot of pain, I guess.
In that sense, I think it was necessary, though not particularly
interesting (some dark hint in a current book might have worked better
for me).
--
Troels Forchhammer
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