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I love Pratchett's Carrot Ironfoundersson. I probably love Vimes more, but Carrot's a good example of my favourite (and too rare) type of hero. Though Caudwell's Desmond Ragwort is an even better example: someone who lives very much "by the book", but "the book" is... I don't know, so very much internalized or something, that it works in his favour. That is why I also love Miss Zukas in Jo Dereske's mystery series - but these three characters are probably the only ones I can remember of that type.
On a less pleasant note, I'm kind of stuck on the sex scene in the novel I translate. It's so boring and alsmot disgusting: reads like a shopping list. But this, at least, is just a scene. I am almost dreading my next book, which I already started but had to put aside for this one. It's non-fiction (I think) - a journalist describes how he took lessons from some experts on picking up women. Very unpleasant, and the journalist is the most unpleasant of the lot, with his musings on how his unability to pick up any girl he looked on made his adolescence a tragedy. Or something. And the lack of any sexuality in the fragment I already translated almost made things more disturbing, not less. It's as if these people do not need anything after getting a phone number out of the women. They don't want these women, this is all just a sport. Any woman might do, and she has a higher value if she is with some man already... And I'll have to translate this. Ugh.
On a less pleasant note, I'm kind of stuck on the sex scene in the novel I translate. It's so boring and alsmot disgusting: reads like a shopping list. But this, at least, is just a scene. I am almost dreading my next book, which I already started but had to put aside for this one. It's non-fiction (I think) - a journalist describes how he took lessons from some experts on picking up women. Very unpleasant, and the journalist is the most unpleasant of the lot, with his musings on how his unability to pick up any girl he looked on made his adolescence a tragedy. Or something. And the lack of any sexuality in the fragment I already translated almost made things more disturbing, not less. It's as if these people do not need anything after getting a phone number out of the women. They don't want these women, this is all just a sport. Any woman might do, and she has a higher value if she is with some man already... And I'll have to translate this. Ugh.