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Originally Posted by Xanthe
I mean, I like getting the backstory on some of the secondary and tertiary characters but there was one of her books, "The Ram Rebellion" I think, where she kept throwing in the names of the relatives and friends of those same secondary and tertiary characters with such wild abandon that I lost track of who the heck she was talking about. Nor could I work up much interest in them.
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Exactly my feelings. Too often her "stories" feel more like a narrative version of a genealogy GED file than an actual, interesting story.
I understand one of her functions in the whole RoF structure is to maintain just such a genealogical file to keep track of the various characters and their relationships/activities. I can see the use of that in overall organization of the RoF universe, but the back office work is not part of the storytelling.