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deaka ([identity profile] deaka.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sholio 2009-02-15 05:19 am (UTC)

It's funny, I just (like, a day ago) finished rereading Neverwhere for the first time in ages, and posted some rambling thoughts on the subject. I was a bit surprised to notice more flaws - or maybe 'flaws' isn't exactly the right word, more just frustrating niggling things - than I remembered. I did notice that Door and Hunter fall victim to looking negligent for completely failing to point out dangers Richard would be unaware of, like, oh, that vampires exist in London Below, so that Richard can stumble into more trouble.

Also a good point about female characters being overly abrasive - was just reading something the other day where the characters were supposed to have a bantering sort of relationship, but the level of sarcasm employed by the female protagonist was way out of proportion, until it was more like 'constant verbal abuse' than 'light banter', even though the author seemed to want the reader to be seeing the latter. It really didn't reflect well on the character at all, and yet it seems to happen quite often.

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