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Women in Sutcliff
Nov. 1st, 2011 03:13 pm( Read more... )
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I do want to give a special mention to Boudicca. Boudicca is horrifying, but I think she's also almost sympathetic. I feel you can kind of see where she is coming from - and for a book about a mass-murdering torturer, that's quite some writing. I'm always awed by Song for a Dark Queen, even though it's such a sad book. It has a male narrator, of course. Would it have been a better book with a female narrator? I'm not sure it would. I think Boudicca of all women is probably one where you can kind of use a little distance to look at her from....
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I do want to give a special mention to Boudicca. Boudicca is horrifying, but I think she's also almost sympathetic. I feel you can kind of see where she is coming from - and for a book about a mass-murdering torturer, that's quite some writing. I'm always awed by Song for a Dark Queen, even though it's such a sad book. It has a male narrator, of course. Would it have been a better book with a female narrator? I'm not sure it would. I think Boudicca of all women is probably one where you can kind of use a little distance to look at her from....
