Monday, June 07, 2010

Least favorite

Which character did you think was drawn the least sympathetically? (Maybe that overlaps with "whom did you like the least?" but I can also see it as a different question.)
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2 comments:

Erin said...

This is a little tough because there were several characters I didn't much care for. My least favorite, I guess, was Millat. He was just so self-absorbed, and lacking the qualities that made Samad (and his self-absorption) sort of comical. He had some likable elements, like his love for American gangster movies, and (as cl mentioned) the fact that he didn't take advantage of Irie. But I just couldn't get on board with him.

My least-favorite list would also include Joyce and Magid.

2:47 PM, June 08, 2010
kc said...

Agreed. Millat and Magid held very little interest for me.

And I cringed whenever the story turned to the Chalfens.

Often I couldn't tell whether I was supposed to be annoyed by someone or deeply interested in them! Was Smith making characters deliberately unlikable? Was that part of the plan? Or was I reading counter to her intentions?

6:00 PM, June 08, 2010

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