Re: RARA-AVIS: recent reads

From: Nathan Cain ( IndieCrime@gmail.com)
Date: 17 May 2007


Apart from American Psycho it has aspects of Ellis' earlier stuff, like Less than Zero and Law of Attraction, which focused largely on the sexual misadventures of amoral young people. There's plenty of that in The Follower, too. Starr's stuff is more believable, though. Some of the stuff with Andy and his roommates made me cringe because I've seen that sort of behavior up close and personal. Starr has a real eye for characterization.

On 5/17/07, Kerry J. Schooley < gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, I thought about the American Psycho angle too, though the key
> question there was the difference between fantasy and reality- was
> the protagonist merely imagining performing violent acts, or was he
> carrying them out. In The Follower I don't think there's any question
> the antagonist is a committing the acts. The question is more one
> about determining what constitutes appropriate, possibly even moral
> behavior in an environment where a central authorative voice is in
> decline (and may never have been as definitive as claimed.) When and
> where are lines crossed when the lines are blurred.
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> Best,
> Kerry
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