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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 3635767" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p><strong>re</strong></p><p></p><p>Completely depends on the character as far as I'm concerned. A high brow Aristocrat raised in gentile society shouldn't be tossing out vulgarities like a Viking. </p><p></p><p>The characters should seem real. There have been various periods where vulgarity was acceptable and those that weren't. So the author should set the table, and then make sure to build a palatable meal for his readers that is easy to digest. If the makes bad characters, that likes bad food that doesn't go down well.</p><p></p><p>It's the same the thing with vulgar language. Having a church knight raised in a very strict religious household tossing out profanities wouldn't fit in the same way I don't want a nomad barbarian speaking as though he was educated in the finest schools in England. </p><p></p><p>I find the inclusion of graphic sexual material more abrupt and unnecessary than vulgar language. Some of these authors just throw in graphic sexual material akin to a porno movie without bothering to consider how it disrupts the story. It's like their some geeky, sweaty freak who just finished watching a porn movie and decided to write about a character in their story they've been fantasizing about. That kind of gratuituous and unnecessary sexual material I could do without.</p><p></p><p>It's one of the reason I stopped reading Ed Greenwood's novels. I've found that Guy Gavriel Kay likes to toss such material into his novel even if it makes the romance in them seem like <em>Days of our Lives</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 3635767, member: 5834"] [b]re[/b] Completely depends on the character as far as I'm concerned. A high brow Aristocrat raised in gentile society shouldn't be tossing out vulgarities like a Viking. The characters should seem real. There have been various periods where vulgarity was acceptable and those that weren't. So the author should set the table, and then make sure to build a palatable meal for his readers that is easy to digest. If the makes bad characters, that likes bad food that doesn't go down well. It's the same the thing with vulgar language. Having a church knight raised in a very strict religious household tossing out profanities wouldn't fit in the same way I don't want a nomad barbarian speaking as though he was educated in the finest schools in England. I find the inclusion of graphic sexual material more abrupt and unnecessary than vulgar language. Some of these authors just throw in graphic sexual material akin to a porno movie without bothering to consider how it disrupts the story. It's like their some geeky, sweaty freak who just finished watching a porn movie and decided to write about a character in their story they've been fantasizing about. That kind of gratuituous and unnecessary sexual material I could do without. It's one of the reason I stopped reading Ed Greenwood's novels. I've found that Guy Gavriel Kay likes to toss such material into his novel even if it makes the romance in them seem like [i]Days of our Lives[/i]. [/QUOTE]
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