Yeah, from Karin's list the only protagonist I'd consider
unreliable is Carl Bigelow from Savage Night, and he's very
subtly unreliable
(spoiler below). Dolly Dillon from Hell of a Woman is a
highly unreliable character--tries to sell himself to the
reader as a nice guy who just keeps having all this hardluck,
especially with all the women he keeps getting involved
with--and as the reader discoveres this isn't quite the real
story.
SPOILER
The extent of Carl Bigelow's unreliability is subtle, but I
found it jolting. The one thing he can hold onto as being
proud of is the way he helped out this elderly couple, and
when you later find out that he was in fact terrorizing this
couple it was like a smack in the face.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> I'm with Karin and miker. I don't think of either
Pop. 1280 or
Killer
> Inside Me as having unreliable narrators. They
present a false
front to
> the world but they are both pretty straightforward
to readers about
what
> lies behind that front.
>
> Mark
>
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