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I read it as an adult and was disappointed by the flatness of the characters and the almost-total absence of any female characters. To clarify: I'm not saying
by Frondo 11y ago
I read it as an adult and was disappointed by the flatness of the characters and the almost-total absence of any female characters.
To clarify: I'm not saying that people should shoehorn women into stories to satisfy a quota, I'm saying that stories that include women are simply more interesting, because they display a wider range of humanity and of the human experience.
Or, to put it another way, it's just boring to read a story where all the characters fit within a very narrow range of personality.
- meatysnapper 11y agoI donno, Plato's Dialouges are pretty interesting.
- fishnchips 11y agoSure, but 2500 years passed since and you'd expect writing to get a bit better. And yet Homer's characters are way more nuanced than Asimov's. Also, in Plato's Dialogs characters are completely irrelevant and are merely instruments that directly represent philosophical standpoints.