Ed Lynskey wrote: I've not read this title but your
insightful comments here made curious about something. Did
the book
"read" like an early draft where the plot points weren't
perhaps quite developed and the major characters weren't
fleshed out?
************ I'm not sure if it read like an early draft or
not, Ed. If anything, the plot seemed over-developed. There
was too much of it for where it went. Another thought I have
is that it wouldn't necessarily have taken Dale any more
words to flesh out the characters.
It just would have taken different words. David Goodis
could knock out a minor character who could reach out and
grab you in half a page. So could Earl Thompson.
To tell the truth, the comments I made were not easy for me
to come up with. When I finish a book I have a solid feeling
about how well I liked it, but it takes a lot of thought for
me to put it into words. So there's the "feeling" first, and
then I put together a rhetorical line of bull to support
it.
miker
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