I just picked up a book from the library called Sinners about a woman in 16th century Rome that hates her dad and wants to kill him.

But she’s a daughter in a rich family so she might as well be a Disney princess. There is also all the other tropes like this guy she can’t help being attracted to even though she doesn’t want to.

My biggest issue reading this book is I’m just like, “you’re rich, what’s your fucking problem. Boo hoo you hate your dad. You made it to adulthood in the 16th century in a comfortable existence.”

These stories are never about the peasants or people who work for these rich assholes. It’s always some wealthy woman that likes reading as if to be a stand in for the reader. It really goes to shoe what a bourgeois medium the novel is

Is all historical fiction like this or have I just picked up a generic example?

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Sturgeon’s law

    Sturgeon’s law states, “Ninety percent of everything is crap”. The adage was coined by American science fiction author and critic Theodore Sturgeon while defending the merits of the genre. Sturgeon observed that most works in any field were low quality. Therefore, science fiction was not uniquely inferior.

    Now for that upper 10%, the Crème de la Crème? Red Plenty. It even cites it’s sources. It’s all about the Cybernetics program within the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s.

    The cover of the book "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford, featuring a grayscale image young man and woman holding a soviet flag in classic Soviet propaganda style.