plots, victims and heroes

[Lindsay Smith]

>This past weekend a friend told me that he found the characters of COL49
>"cardboard," and after mulling it over, I couldn't help but agree with
>him.  While I did get a multidimensional feel for the heroine of the novel,
>any other characters were so two dimensional that I quickly forgot them.

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>Rob (aka splash)


While I agree with you that some of TRP's characters are cardboard like,
there are exceptions.  I've always felt that Roger Mexico and Jessica in GR
are two of the more real charaters I've run across in fiction.  While the
characters in Barth's The End of the Road are well realized, I've always
had the feeling that Barth didn't really like anybody in the book.  (Of
course it's been 25 years since I read it, so I might be talking through my
hat).

Some other characters that have always felt very real are Fausto Maijstral
in V and several of the scetches of minor charaters in the early part of V
(the first Stencil section).

(another) Lindsay