Emmet

Emmet wrote on November 17, 2005 at 4:38 PM:

The dancing bear incident is just wrong, it's not at the same level of reality as the rest of the series, and even allowing for O'Brien plausibly still not having figured out where he was going with it as a series, it doesn't work. [ Though I always think of it as "Exit Stephen pursued by a bear", which is at least worth a giggle. ]

Kate

Kate wrote on November 17, 2005 at 4:41 PM:

To be fair, it _tries_, I would say, with the unpleasant physical aspects coming hard on the heels of the silliness of it being Jack. But on the whole, as Jack might say, it don't answer.

We've just been introduced to an Ulsterman in book 4, and I was relieved that he sounds much more different from Stephen than James Dillion did in book 1; there are several long conversations between the two of them without dialogue tags that were very difficult.

Outside of a Dog: O'Brian, Patrick: (02) Post Captain (spoilers)

Emmet

Kate