The closest I get to bulletproof is girls cross dressing. When I was kid I really loved These Old Shades and the sequel not to mention the Angelique books which I remember as being full of Angelique having to pass as a boy but it is many many years since I read them so I may be misremembering.
Like you it's not really bulletproof because bad writing and scarifying politics will kill it stone cold dead for me.
I kind of like the Doomed Love of Rhett and Scarlett because it's so willful but you believe her blindness and stupidity and that he would finally lose patience with her. I wish the book wasn't so unspeakably racist . . .
I am also a huge fan of Rebecca in Ivanhoe. Though I am disturbed by my kind of wanting her and Bois-Gilbert to get it on. Because he is DREADFUL.
I do have a weakness for books where the love does not work out. But sometimes I feel very alone in that . . .
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Wed, Sep. 19th, 2007 06:52 pm (UTC)Like you it's not really bulletproof because bad writing and scarifying politics will kill it stone cold dead for me.
I kind of like the Doomed Love of Rhett and Scarlett because it's so willful but you believe her blindness and stupidity and that he would finally lose patience with her. I wish the book wasn't so unspeakably racist . . .
I am also a huge fan of Rebecca in Ivanhoe. Though I am disturbed by my kind of wanting her and Bois-Gilbert to get it on. Because he is DREADFUL.
I do have a weakness for books where the love does not work out. But sometimes I feel very alone in that . . .