Book review: Bleeding Edge
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu Sep 12 10:53:43 CDT 2013
On 9/12/13, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> This sounds like the same "criticism" we've heard over and over. Imo, it's
> not valid because where some books are character driven and need nice juicy
> characters that the reader where the reader can read and interpret interiors
> and identify with them and so on, other books are either plot driven or
> theme driven - (satire), or something else. I tend to think of TRP as
> being theme driven with good plots and adequate characters who serve their
> purpose of furthering both theme and plot. Some of Dickens' characters
> have been made into cartoons! (LOL!) M&D was as close as TRP got to
> "realistic" (true to life, whatever), fleshy characters.
It's also simply not true.
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