> -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Beecroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King > > > -Tilly- > > Last winter I decided to take the Beecroft challenge and see > > what really was in Pride and Prejudice > > Till! I'm flattered. And glad to hear you enjoyed it, eventually at > least. > > > Her style has to grow on you, I guess. > > Orson Scott Card, LDS writer of fiction/science fiction/fantasy, has > complained that most present-day authors eschew developing the character > of "good guys" because, as they claim, bad guys are "more interesting". > Card maintains that the good guys are actually far more interesting, and > that evil is essentially banal. That is exactly the viewpoint I get > from Austen novels. Her protagonists are interesting, engaging, > honorable if flawed, while the antagonists are ultimately revealed to be > veneer-thin and distastefully similar in their smallness. Or that's my > view of things.
Interesting view, Card's. I'd say it's a mixed bag of good guys and bad. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
