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Food for thought!
Today Nicoll made a post asking:
The thread's up to 81 comments so far, and at least half the books offered up have been either edge cases - "she starts out as twenty, but she's nearly fifty by the end!" "she's one of the most important of the six POV characters!" - or flat-out BS. You guys, for purposes of this conversation, ageless mystical tree spirits DO NOT COUNT.
Several people have posted about characters who are like, forty. So, what, college is middle-aged now? (Do people ever call forty-year-old guys "old men?")
Today Nicoll made a post asking:
In another discussion I don't to derail more than I have, someone laments the general lack of old ladies as protagonists. Aside from the woman in Remnant Population and Esme Weatherwax, who should be mentioned?
The thread's up to 81 comments so far, and at least half the books offered up have been either edge cases - "she starts out as twenty, but she's nearly fifty by the end!" "she's one of the most important of the six POV characters!" - or flat-out BS. You guys, for purposes of this conversation, ageless mystical tree spirits DO NOT COUNT.
Several people have posted about characters who are like, forty. So, what, college is middle-aged now? (Do people ever call forty-year-old guys "old men?")
