interesting how even if you think you like the same things, you don't really. I prefer Lady of Quality to the Black Sheep - why? the first page and the coachman's point of view. and as far as the henwitted female, I defy you to find a more tiresome female than Maria Farlow. Sometimes when one of my co-workers won't shut up, I call her Maria just to amuse myself (she has no idea what my problem is).
One of my favorite things about Georgette Heyer is that she had a deck of characters which she shuffled up to create a new dynamic for each book (e.g., Let's make the fashionable fribble the hero - Freddie in Cotillion. Let's make the quiet guy the hero, the Duke of Sale in the Foundling -- and a near-sighted heroine, who tangles her shawl - I mean really who can ask for more?). The pity is that all of Heyer's imitators picked her reformed rake character (from Black Sheep, Lady of Quality, Venetia, etc.) as the stock hero - which after reading a few bad imitations kind of ruined those books for me. I like the silly or the more sinister heroes better. Avon/Alastair never reforms much.
As far as the slash goes, Hugh/Alastair was rather famously done, but the D/s goes the other way ( http://www.geocities.com/jat_sapphire/1nightstands/wov.htm ) I'd love to see you do it though. I think you understand the dynamics of pain - both physical and spiritual.
I adore Georgette and have read all of the romances into tatters. I've been rebuying them all again, but the new ones are very poorly bound and the covers have a distressing habit of coming off. (on the historicals, I had a British history professor who actually used excerpts from an Infamous Army to teach Waterloo - that's how accurate it is. But still the best part of that book is that Barbara is Alastair's granddaughter)
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One of my favorite things about Georgette Heyer is that she had a deck of characters which she shuffled up to create a new dynamic for each book (e.g., Let's make the fashionable fribble the hero - Freddie in Cotillion. Let's make the quiet guy the hero, the Duke of Sale in the Foundling -- and a near-sighted heroine, who tangles her shawl - I mean really who can ask for more?). The pity is that all of Heyer's imitators picked her reformed rake character (from Black Sheep, Lady of Quality, Venetia, etc.) as the stock hero - which after reading a few bad imitations kind of ruined those books for me. I like the silly or the more sinister heroes better. Avon/Alastair never reforms much.
As far as the slash goes, Hugh/Alastair was rather famously done, but the D/s goes the other way ( http://www.geocities.com/jat_sapphire/1nightstands/wov.htm ) I'd love to see you do it though. I think you understand the dynamics of pain - both physical and spiritual.
I adore Georgette and have read all of the romances into tatters. I've been rebuying them all again, but the new ones are very poorly bound and the covers have a distressing habit of coming off. (on the historicals, I had a British history professor who actually used excerpts from an Infamous Army to teach Waterloo - that's how accurate it is. But still the best part of that book is that Barbara is Alastair's granddaughter)