Noir Classics

[David Morris]

Lew is an example of one of AtD's flaws:  It was filled with secondary
characters who added little but distraction from whatever my have been the
main point of this novel.

GR had a cast of thousands, but most of the secondary characters existed for
only a single, memorable event.  Those that had repeat performances fit into
a larger cohesive web of meaning/message, and their contributions were
usually in very dramatic interactions.

It's hard to think of Lew, and many of the other AtD 2nd and 3rd level
characters as contributing on such a level.

David Morris

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lew was a secondary character in ATD, but one of the sweetest of OBA's
> characters.
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