The fact Phillip DID die was kind of what got me into LKH's writing in the first place. For once, the heroine DOESN'T get to save the day. That was cool. Anita's reaction and pain was cool. It was more realistic.
I think it would have been nice, if Anita still dreams about Phillip, to have brought him up in a later book or have her revisit it in more of a blurb if she was sooooo deeply "effected." No, a book or two later we got Richard, Phillip's replacement. Looks and wangsts like Phillip, only it's new and improved Phillip!
And because LKH can't seperate reality from her own fiction, we get hordes of weak little supernatural bishonen having bad sex with a boring, bitchy woman that doesn't deserve it and doesn't do anything interesting anymore. YUCK.
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Date: 2008-01-23 11:01 pm (UTC)I think it would have been nice, if Anita still dreams about Phillip, to have brought him up in a later book or have her revisit it in more of a blurb if she was sooooo deeply "effected." No, a book or two later we got Richard, Phillip's replacement. Looks and wangsts like Phillip, only it's new and improved Phillip!
And because LKH can't seperate reality from her own fiction, we get hordes of weak little supernatural bishonen having bad sex with a boring, bitchy woman that doesn't deserve it and doesn't do anything interesting anymore. YUCK.