Words from the Monastery <anthony.dauer:
> "Silence of the Lambs" is written by one of the most
critically aclaimed
> authors of our time. What you're complaining about
is actually the reality
> of the psychopath or more acurrately the serial
killer
I'll try to explain for a third time. I have never read
Harris and know Silence of the Lambs from the movie. I never
said I doubted the reality of the psycopath/serial killer.
What I object to is an author who has one has no need to
construct a book that has plot, motivation and logic all
carefully worked out so they hang together and are
reasonable. This may can be absent in the psycopath/serial
killer book. In reading something that has been carefully
constructed a reader can feel as the book progresses that one
incident is the result of what has gone before, and the book
makes internal sense. What I am complaining about is the
author who uses the psycopath/serial killer as a sort of wild
card allowing the writer to forget about all this careful
work by in effect saying to himself about his villain. "He's
crazy. He may do anything so anything can happen." Mark
.
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