! On 8/5/06, Bob Calco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ! > The author would make a great ghost writer for John La ! Carre or Robert ! > Ludlum ! ! 1. should be John LE Carré
Yep, you're right. It was a typo I made in my haste to make it out the door in time for our family's week-end get-away. ! 2. he's a far better better writer than Ludlum Le Carré? Actually, I agree with you. Ludlum's characters are very unidimensional (good guys are great guys; bad guys are thoroughly bad guys); whereas Le Carré's are rather interesting individuals with conflicting motives, like, well, real people. The author of the article in question would be able at best to pull off a boring Ludlum novel. He treats the 'cabalists' with the same literary sensitivity that Ludlum does the bad guys in his Acquitaine Progression, and his conclusions are similarly way too inexorable. ! 3. his plots are rather believable... Assuming you're still talking about Le Carré, again I agree. I especially liked A Perfect Spy but really all his novels are quite believable because the characters are believably conceived an believably conveyed. Any plot is believable with good characterization. I don't always like his POV, but there's no questioning his literary credentials. Conversely, even a great plot can fall flat if the characters aren't believable. Which is part of why I can't take the arguments Bill tries to offer up seriously. You have to believe a lot of intelligent people are incurably stupid or at least pathetically gullable, and you have to believe the neo-cons themselves are so uniformly evil and cosmically powerful. Except Bush, whom you have to believe is both an imbecile and seductively persuasive---clearly the best guy the neo-cons could have put up as a front man, because of how gosh darn charismatic he is (after all, he even duped the much smarter Kerry and countless other supposedly really bright folk with his convincing pro-war arguments, which nobody could find any fault in until long after the fact). In short you have to drink your own kool aid to believe any of it. - Bob ! ! A+ ! jml ! ! [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
