#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

[alice wellintown]

John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I think Elmina and Leo seem relatively likeable,

Despite attack after attack on the traditional and conventional
character in genre after genre ...despite the zapping of traditional
and conventional plots, settings, themes, moods, tones, narratives ...
readers continue to Stencilize with remarkably conservative
expectations the most innovative experimentation of the author.

The novel is not all that interesting and it's prose style is flat
and, for most of the read, ugly. Yet, there are reasons to analyze it.
Fitting it to conventional or traditional modes is not one.