DomaDoma
Three-Puppet Saluter
Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Feb 28th 2012 at 4:27:44 AM
VC Andrews, by the blurbs, cannot possibly be unintentional in displaying her grandma issues. Even if her ghostwriter also has them.
On OSC, I wondered why on earth we need to know about the regretful mad scientist's sex life in the Shadow series. Then I heard about his bulldog Mormon heterosexuality. Then I read Songmaster. I mean, the hypocritical homophobe is the "it takes one to know one" of political discourse, but Songmaster might as well be entitled For Gay Mormons Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Kitchen Is Enuff.
Hail Martin Septim!
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So a couple of years ago, I was listening to an audiobook of Ender In Exile, and my girlfriend (now wife) asked what kind of problems OSC had with is mother. I hadn't thought about it before, but a little mental cataloging pulled up a whole list of evil (or at least harsh) mothers in Card's books. There's Novinha in Speaker for the Dead (and forward), Queen Beauty in Hart's Hope, and two in Ender in Exile (I can't conveniently find their names at the moment). Alvin Maker's mother isn't evil, but she is at least profoundly mistaken about the preacher.
This does seem to form a pattern. So the questions: Am I just imagining this? (And) Can you think of any other instances where a pattern like this seems to unintentionally show up across a number of author's works?
(On a side note, I also recently realized that mothers are almost entirely absent from Brandon Sanderson's books.)