Also, it's a perennial irritation when writers who are writing ostensibly about societies that are not this one insist on putting any one of this culture's attitudes about gender and sexual orientation on their own culture. Clegg did manage to avoid some of the major pitfalls of this, but I think first and foremost Mordred was gay,and that was his characterization.
It made it a bit less interesting for me than if Mordred's attraction to men had been treated not as the central fact of his life but as just another part of his character. (Though, at the ages that this book covers, you've got all the Raging Hormones and stuff and you're pretty invested in who you want to sleep with.)
It just barely managed to avoid being a Message Book, but I still liked it. :)
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Date: 2007-03-28 09:11 pm (UTC)It made it a bit less interesting for me than if Mordred's attraction to men had been treated not as the central fact of his life but as just another part of his character. (Though, at the ages that this book covers, you've got all the Raging Hormones and stuff and you're pretty invested in who you want to sleep with.)
It just barely managed to avoid being a Message Book, but I still liked it. :)