Maybe I was also less offended because I do enjoy protagonists that are many of those things that some critics appear to hate competent, powerful, and victorious. I didn't find any of these things offensive, mostly because I took the story for what it was a fun, action-packed, fast moving novel with heroes, monsters, and firearms.
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The main character is strong, talented, skilled, and gets the girl. If you go into the story looking for author wish fulfillment then you can certainly find it. One could argue that Correia's protagonist shares many qualities with him and does enjoy many above average abilities.
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Speaking more directly to Correia's work. How about instead of throwing out what was once a highly nuanced insult, you actually describe your problems with a story or character, or how about you recognize that most fantasy stories are going to revolve around characters that are highly above average? This isn't so much an attack on posters here as it is an objection to the term on the whole.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen the protagonists of virtually every recent popular fantasy series referred to as Mary Sues, from the Dresden Files, to Mistborn, to The Wheel of Time, Twenty Palaces, so forth and so on forever more. The term is so ridiculously over applied to any character that is above average that it has lost any and all meaning as a descriptive or pejorative term. I really disapprove of the Mary Sue argument in general whenever it is applied, but especially when it is applied to fantasy stories. It was nice to see a writer talking about firearms with some first hand knowledge, and I felt like the plot and pacing was excellent in both.