Craig wrote about Teran's new book:
"The characters never really came to life. They weren't
people I cared about one way or the other, and that made the
book a lot less affecting than it could have (should have)
been."
I was wondering about this book when I saw it in a store the
other day. One question about your statement, though, do you
mean you do not care about them as people or as characters? I
guess what I'm asking is if you can find reprehensible
characters worth reading about, which recasts my question as
were they bad people or cardboard characters, never fleshed
out and, maybe, a bit boring for that reason? If I read you
correctly, I think you are saying the latter, that they
weren't distinctive enough to really involve you.
"Should I still give _God is a Bullet_ a try?"
There was a lot of discussion about this book around the time
it came out if you feel like searching the archives. I liked
it overall as an updated version of John Ford's The
Searchers, but it had some of the same problems you point out
of the new one. The characters seem as much types as
individuals, so one character's conversion, for instance,
does not seem nearly as big a deal as I think it is supposed
to be.
Mark
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