Your thoughts are bringing to mind some of the things I disliked about the book, namely, Bendrix.
And I have a wide range for sympathetic characters! Some of my favorite people in fiction are fools, traitors, fuck-ups, liars, killers, at least one sociopath, and an assortment of other traits generally considered askance by polite society. But there is something about Bendrix's particular brand of romantic pathology that does not cause me to find him interesting; it causes me to be glad he's fictional, because there are enough people like that already in the world and they do not make it a better place. Just for starters, love is not defined by the extent of jealousy it inspires. Worst premise for a relationship ever.
The fact that I read it recently (within the past five years) and yet can't really remember the details of it also leads me to believe that I forgot it because it dissatisfied me.
So noted. I had been planning to read the novel for comparison; I may still, because it would take me about an hour and that's less time than I lost to its film, but this inclines me to believe the one is not a huge improvement on the other, at least as far as Bendrix is concerned.
Yeah, that sums it up.
Seriously, I was not expecting the God!
I really have no interest at all in a dungeonmaster God who designs horrors for his PCs' moral edification and eventual glory. Not interested in that game, thanks.
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And I have a wide range for sympathetic characters! Some of my favorite people in fiction are fools, traitors, fuck-ups, liars, killers, at least one sociopath, and an assortment of other traits generally considered askance by polite society. But there is something about Bendrix's particular brand of romantic pathology that does not cause me to find him interesting; it causes me to be glad he's fictional, because there are enough people like that already in the world and they do not make it a better place. Just for starters, love is not defined by the extent of jealousy it inspires. Worst premise for a relationship ever.
The fact that I read it recently (within the past five years) and yet can't really remember the details of it also leads me to believe that I forgot it because it dissatisfied me.
So noted. I had been planning to read the novel for comparison; I may still, because it would take me about an hour and that's less time than I lost to its film, but this inclines me to believe the one is not a huge improvement on the other, at least as far as Bendrix is concerned.
Yeah, that sums it up.
Seriously, I was not expecting the God!
I really have no interest at all in a dungeonmaster God who designs horrors for his PCs' moral edification and eventual glory. Not interested in that game, thanks.
Back at you: that is a great metaphor.