Re: AR's optimism


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Posted by Jock on July 11, 2010 at 10:57:43 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: AR's optimism posted by Dave Thewlis on July 10, 2010 at 19:56:38:

There are several things that makes GN stand apart from the rest of the series.

Dave has put his finger on one of them - the feeling of estrangement from the characters -
reinforced by the book starting from viewpoint of one of the local natives!

Then there is the dark symbolism: Dick being attracted to Jemmerling and his boat until he
realises too late what the man is really about, the skin of a dead bird, the name Pterodactyl.

Finally, there is no clear cut 'happy ending'.

PM - which I love by the way - is nowhere near so dark, but the shadows of the grown up
world - with all its imperfections - threaten to derail our heroes at every turn...


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