Hmm. It's presumably aimed at women? (Being a historical setting, I'm assuming so.)
I've never really understood why the heroine has to be incredibly gorgeous in books for women. It really pisses me off! It's so rare for the heroine to be ordinary, and when she is, she's usually extraordinarily good at her job to make up for it.
I understand the need for an interesting story, but why can't the heroine be a normal person?
I like a heroine to be competent - but when she's better at what she does than anyone else, without ever seeming to have worked to get to where she is, she just becomes unrealistic.
I think the requirement to be gorgeous applies to both sexes and across all forms of media, though. I was discussing with a friend recently the apparent requirement for any male in a leading role on US tv to be at least six foot tall, regardless of whether it's appropriate for the character. You know which show I'm thinking of.
They definitely got the whole Gene/Sam thing in the Spanish version, and it worked very well. I've never seen the US version and I have no plans for wasting any time on it!
lol! I see that so often- It's incredibly sad that some fanfiction is not only better written, but better edited than some "professionally' published fiction.
And I wonder whether those authors have figured out that an imperfectly gorgeous heroine is much more appealing to most of us- that arent' teenage boys. :P
Yes, there's some absolutely dire fic out there, but there's some very good stuff too. Whereas some professionally published authors increasingly don't even seem able to use an apostrophe correctly.
If I'd been editing this book the first thing I'd have told the author would be to lose the emerald eyes and auburn hair. As I said above, it's such a cliche. And it's very hard to identify with a heroine who is, like Mary Poppins, 'practically perfect in every way'.
the letters of the Latin alphabet are not always used as they are in English. 'In the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an i.' Anyone who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have an idea.
In an episode of Stargate: SG1, the character Daniel Jackson, who is meticulous about his own research and dismissive of what he considers substandard work, once got the dates of a medieval king of England wrong. I later found that the writers had lifted Daniel's entire speech from a dodgy website on Arthurian myth.
Digging in the East coast to the Great Plains, I saw that skeletally during the colonial expansion era too. Funny. I don't explain it- most of them, as imports, weren't particularly affected by increased nutrition during developement.Gross generalisation ahead, but Europeans tend to get taller as you get further north. You weren't excavating Scandinavians, by any chance, were you? But seriously, if they were homogeneous groups, the specific region of Europe they came from could be significant. Averages are averages,
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I've never really understood why the heroine has to be incredibly gorgeous in books for women. It really pisses me off! It's so rare for the heroine to be ordinary, and when she is, she's usually extraordinarily good at her job to make up for it.
I understand the need for an interesting story, but why can't the heroine be a normal person?
/grumpy old bag
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I think the requirement to be gorgeous applies to both sexes and across all forms of media, though. I was discussing with a friend recently the apparent requirement for any male in a leading role on US tv to be at least six foot tall, regardless of whether it's appropriate for the character. You know which show I'm thinking of.
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Ooh, let me think...
They definitely got the whole Gene/Sam thing in the Spanish version, and it worked very well. I've never seen the US version and I have no plans for wasting any time on it!
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And I wonder whether those authors have figured out that an imperfectly gorgeous heroine is much more appealing to most of us- that arent' teenage boys.
:P
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If I'd been editing this book the first thing I'd have told the author would be to lose the emerald eyes and auburn hair. As I said above, it's such a cliche. And it's very hard to identify with a heroine who is, like Mary Poppins, 'practically perfect in every way'.
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'In the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an i.' Anyone who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have an idea.
In an episode of Stargate: SG1, the character Daniel Jackson, who is meticulous about his own research and dismissive of what he considers substandard work, once got the dates of a medieval king of England wrong. I later found that the writers had lifted Daniel's entire speech from a dodgy website on Arthurian myth.
Digging in the East coast to the Great Plains, I saw that skeletally during the colonial expansion era too. Funny.
I don't explain it- most of them, as imports, weren't particularly affected by increased nutrition during developement.Gross generalisation ahead, but Europeans tend to get taller as you get further north. You weren't excavating Scandinavians, by any chance, were you? But seriously, if they were homogeneous groups, the specific region of Europe they came from could be significant. Averages are averages, ( ... )
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