Kevin said:
>And all the lame bleating about "But it happened in
real life" doesn't
>impress me. To satisfy, fiction >has to make some
sort of sense; real life
>doesn't. Citing "real life" to justify literary
weaknesses and
>implausibilities just doesn't cut it -- it's often
the last straw of
>writers who don't know how to craft >believable
characters.
The comment above gets at what often frustrates me when
reading a book with a premise or characters that I just can't
buy. But...
When you take it a bit beyond the characters being true to
themselves and into discussing the action of the book itself,
which makes me wonder you or others think of so many of
Bruen's books. The Taylor books sure, but especially the
Brant series are often, if not resolved, then ended with
events ranging from the completely random to the viscously
absurd.
And I love that about them. You pay attention not to round up
a series of clues, but because anything might happen.
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