I think you have misunderstood. - Edit 1
Before modification by Camilla at 15/06/2010 07:11:02 PM
I've said it over and over - I think Harkaway lets the ideas get in the way of his story. There's not much substance to his people - and I am a person who reads for character as well as plot. But this novel sort of leads with the ideas, with people and plot subject to ideas' wordy whims.
I am not as rigid with genre rules as you are, but I disapprove of philosophy masquerading as fiction.
I am rigid with genre rules?
to be a part of. It's not so much that you want something to fit, it's that... you tend to categorise things into what we assume are its creator-intended genres and then decide that the books cannot fit into that genre or there are too many genres - I am currently going by your reaction to True Lies and Heyer's Infamous Army.
I think you have misundestood my reasons for disliking both.
And, to a very large extent, by your reply here re: satire and what the novel does.
It's not a criticism - it's just a different way of reading. It makes for god arguments when we watch True Lies, though.
Ahem. Please still love me?
I will, if I get your letter soon
