I haven't read Sailcloth Shroud but I do love unreliable
narrators. Handled carefully, it opens up a new dimension on
a book and gives you a lot more on that character (there's
nothing worse, for me, than a clever story with a bunch of
boring or underdeveloped characters).
What I don't like are narrators who deliberately withhold
information purely for the purposes of tension and mystery
etc. That's the writer's job, not the narrator's. (Unless the
narrator claims to be the writer, with a writer's concerns
about craft etc, in which case you have a
pseudo-autobiography kind of affair.) I like an unreliable
narrator should be that way because of psychological reasons,
not artistic. This is all going a bit meta.
Charlie Williams.
charliewilliams.net
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> I wrote:
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> Just finished this.
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> When I wrote this it was titled "Sailcloth
Shroud,"
> and I changed the name.
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> miker
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