Doug Lewars's Blog - Posts Tagged "douglewars-character-library"

Frequently when I go to the nearest library, I have absolutely no idea what I want to read. Oh I have a few favorite authors but the probability of finding anything new by them is pretty low. In addition I'm often rushed so I select something that looks like it may be interesting and check it out. Sometimes this works. Sometimes it doesn't. Recently I haven't done so well. I've been reading books published in the last year or so and it seems from an albeit limited sample that the current fashion is to find an interesting plot and then craft the most unlikable character possible to act as protagonist. By unlikable I don't mean villainous. That's okay. By unlikable I mean characters who can't tie their own shoelaces without feeling helpless and then emoting about it. I'm not asking for Conan the Barbarian but even Tom Sharpe's Wilt character would be a big step up.