Posted by jane d on April 4, 2002, at 13:03:15
In reply to Re: Confederacy --me too. » noa, posted by Dinah on March 18, 2002, at 19:58:10
> In fact I've given up at page 130. The book simply did not capture my interest. I can't muster up one bit of interest in what happens to characters who are so difficult to like. They also seem rather two dimensional, so there is no complexity to them to grab my interest either.
>Dinah & Noa,
I did make it through the book but I had the same problem with the characters. I found the book hillarious while I was reading it but afterwards it left a bad taste in my mouth - I sort of felt like I had laughed at a cruel joke at someone elses expense. Once I started thinking about the characters as people instead of jokes there was nothing there. They were just a collection of annoying and mockable traits. Convincing. I laughed because I know people who are like that some of the time. But this book seems to be saying that that is the only thing that matters about them and that is a belief that I like to think I have outgrown (what fun he would have had with my pretensions).
Jane
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