Gerald wrote:
"At the other end of the spectrum is Lew Archer, whom I found
had very little personality. He was supposed to be a lens
through which readers could view the world and maybe
role-play as Mark said. It disturbed me, though, to feel
after three books that I didn't know the man."
You know, I hear this criticism a lot. Maybe it's because I
placed myself so thoroughly inside him and/or because I was
even more susceptible to that when I was 20, but it wasn't
until years after I read the whole series in quick succession
that I realized how little I knew about Lew Archer.
Mark
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