Re: Father Figure (was Re: RARA-AVIS: Positions still open)

From: Ed Lynskey (e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 20 Aug 2008

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    I'd agree on the POV shifts. It just took me a few chapters to get on board with the structure he was employing. I liked the storyline setting up things in the post-Katrina hell. DR still did his duties as a lawman.

    --- On Wed, 8/20/08, decastro3 <decastro3@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > <e_lynskey@...> wrote:
    > I remember the shift from first person to third person
    > narrative voice in TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN took some getting used,
    >
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    > I thought he handled those shifts in POV masterfully. And
    > I liked Tin
    > Roof Blowdown, but it could have been so much more in my
    > opinion.
    > About halfway through the book, it seemed to shift from a
    > story about
    > this cast of characters struggling in the aftermath of the
    > disaster to
    > a typical Robicheaux story with him chasing down one of
    > Burke's
    > typical psychopaths. The first half of the book is much
    > more
    > interesting...though the denouement was pretty powerful
    > stuff, too.
    >
    > Tony
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