Jul-29-2012, 06:08 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Jul-29-2012, 06:20 AM (UTC) by Farseer.)
A great question to get the gears upstairs turning! I will take some time to think on this (though I know straight up what I love THE MOST about Robin's works) and get back as soon as I can. 
What better thing to do research on!
I may as well quickly add just what I *do* love the most, and extend on it and other things later.
Her works are believable and connective.
I see myself in her characters...I *am* her characters. I can see myself doing the things her characters do, loving the things they love, hating the things they hate and fighting for the things they don't/can't walk away from etc etc. Other characters are those from my own life, doing the things the people who irritate and anger me do. I experience their losses as my own because they *are* my own.
Her characters are complex just as real people are complex. Simple examples from LST: I hate Kennit. He raped me. I am in love with Brashen despite his failings. Sometimes I feel truly torn between 'child' and 'adult' like Paragon, and feel the torment of the various aspects of me clamouring for attention and supremacy.
Her magics *could* be true. I certainly believe that they are whilst I am reading. I can see where they could fit seemlessly into real life. They are believable to me.
I connect with the politics, the everyday, the landscape, the peoples, the characters, the magics...such a connecting is very powerful and so is the ability to create them.
Okay, I am actually extremely busy and shouldn't even be here (
!!!!) so...later 'gators!
What better thing to do research on!
I may as well quickly add just what I *do* love the most, and extend on it and other things later.
Her works are believable and connective.
I see myself in her characters...I *am* her characters. I can see myself doing the things her characters do, loving the things they love, hating the things they hate and fighting for the things they don't/can't walk away from etc etc. Other characters are those from my own life, doing the things the people who irritate and anger me do. I experience their losses as my own because they *are* my own.
Her characters are complex just as real people are complex. Simple examples from LST: I hate Kennit. He raped me. I am in love with Brashen despite his failings. Sometimes I feel truly torn between 'child' and 'adult' like Paragon, and feel the torment of the various aspects of me clamouring for attention and supremacy.
Her magics *could* be true. I certainly believe that they are whilst I am reading. I can see where they could fit seemlessly into real life. They are believable to me.
I connect with the politics, the everyday, the landscape, the peoples, the characters, the magics...such a connecting is very powerful and so is the ability to create them.
Okay, I am actually extremely busy and shouldn't even be here (
!!!!) so...later 'gators!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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