I'm shocked, Mario, because I find her characters utterly
true to life
(except perhaps the man who owns the agency can't be that fat
and eat so constantly), and then these real people do real
things that I haven't seen fictional characters doing before.
Like hating Duke: Everybody I know in North Carolina is rabid
about college basketball and hates Duke; I have no idea why
this is so, but Munger's the only novelist I've read who puts
it on the page. And like loving (and lusting after) a man in
a wheelchair: It's something that happens, I've been there
myself, and nobody else AFAIK has written it.
As far as flights of fantasy, I
despised those talking animals and fairy princesses I was
supposed to enjoy as a child, and I can't think of anything
I've read since then that was too rational.
Joy
Mario Taboada wrote:
> Ed, I agree that Munger keeps things moving and has
a good
> sense of humor. My problem is that I can't believe
in her
> characters. Also, it seems that Munger's
obvious
> intelligence is precluding flights of fantasy. The
whole
> thing is too rational for me. I've found this
extreme
> rationality to be a problem with several female
writers,
> including Sue Grafton. Great plots, no fantasy,
few
> surprises (psychological surprises).
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