professional authors write badfic, too
Oct. 17th, 2008 05:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldearOn a whim, I bought The Independance Of Miss Mary Bennett by Colleen McCullough (of Thorn Birds fame)
It's set seventeen years after the events of Pride And Prejudice, and...well, to put it nicely, the characterisation is shot.
It's fanfic - but not just fanfic, it's badfic.
The characters as they were in P&P are barely recognisable, caricatures of themselves, twisted beyond all recognition. Seventeen years changes people, yes; but this feels less like the changes of seventeen years, adding maturity and world experience to characters, and more like someone got huffy that Mary Bennett was passed over in favour of her sisters and set out to write a fanfic that not only put Mary into the fore, but which twisted and tore down everyone else that P&P lionized.
I read the first three chapters, and I don't want to read any more. Meh.
It's set seventeen years after the events of Pride And Prejudice, and...well, to put it nicely, the characterisation is shot.
It's fanfic - but not just fanfic, it's badfic.
The characters as they were in P&P are barely recognisable, caricatures of themselves, twisted beyond all recognition. Seventeen years changes people, yes; but this feels less like the changes of seventeen years, adding maturity and world experience to characters, and more like someone got huffy that Mary Bennett was passed over in favour of her sisters and set out to write a fanfic that not only put Mary into the fore, but which twisted and tore down everyone else that P&P lionized.
I read the first three chapters, and I don't want to read any more. Meh.
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Date: 2008-10-17 01:00 am (UTC)UGH.
Got any idea whether the Pemberley
fanficnovel is any good?