That always strikes me too, that at times it feels almost like the bad characters wind up showing the things we're supposed to be admiring the good characters for--not in a way that makes the bad guys good, just in that for some reason she's good at contrasting this stuff with their badness in ways she doesn't always do with the good guys. Almost like we're just supposed to take it for granted when it's hard to do that.
Yes, definitely! Its far more satifying to read a book that may niggle, irritate and occasionally offend you rather than one that so decidedly literary and airtight in its conventions. Life is unfair, inconsistent and never predictable - rather like the moral relativism of a good book...
Yup, if it doesn't have that it's like it's not life.
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Date: 2006-11-29 09:04 pm (UTC)Yes, definitely! Its far more satifying to read a book that may niggle, irritate and occasionally offend you rather than one that so decidedly literary and airtight in its conventions. Life is unfair, inconsistent and never predictable - rather like the moral relativism of a good book...
Yup, if it doesn't have that it's like it's not life.