That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
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