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Randy Marsh posted:I love how the books are self aware and turn a lot of the fantasy tropes on their heads, such as Bayaz not at all being who he seems, if you go in thinking of him as the typical old wizard who guides the "heroes". From his own descriptions of "Heroes", that's pretty much Abercrombie's point: everyone is kinda reprehensible and there is absolutely no "good" faction or person. It's all shades of vicious, vindictive, vain and other wise unappealing traits that are written so successfully that you can't help but empathize with the characters. Glokta is the perfect example of this
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It would be fascinating to read an Abercrombie story that has one of the Eaters being the focus. It would fit in perfectly with his style of presenting a character and getting the reader to empathize with them and then exposing the depravity and fuckedupedness of said character. That would switch the focus more to the South a little too. The "Northman" character with his shaggy hair, grunts and Conanesque musculature has become stale.
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Apr 21, 2010 01:58
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^^^^^ He is an important figure in the book, but by no means the protagonist.
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