I'd love to share anecdotes about people reading my books, but unfortunately I have to threaten them with blunt objects to do so *waves large stalk of brokkoli at kippurbird* or they won't read at all.
*ahem* Nevermind...
There are two things that I find remarkably missing from modern literature and that is a code of honour as sufficient reason in itself to do something heroic. That is a hero like Zorro or the Lone Ranger or what have you, someone who goes out and does stuff because it's the right thing to do. These days that is almost incomprehensible, which is why idiots keep giving heroes angsty backgrounds to explain why they do what they do.
The second thing is the idea that heroes must be all fluff and light. Given a genuinely medieval or ancient setting, the morality of the people there would be... different. Often horrid, self-serving, direct, and very common sensical, in way it's hard for us to understand.
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Date: 2008-10-06 04:23 pm (UTC)*ahem* Nevermind...
There are two things that I find remarkably missing from modern literature and that is a code of honour as sufficient reason in itself to do something heroic. That is a hero like Zorro or the Lone Ranger or what have you, someone who goes out and does stuff because it's the right thing to do. These days that is almost incomprehensible, which is why idiots keep giving heroes angsty backgrounds to explain why they do what they do.
The second thing is the idea that heroes must be all fluff and light. Given a genuinely medieval or ancient setting, the morality of the people there would be... different. Often horrid, self-serving, direct, and very common sensical, in way it's hard for us to understand.