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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