Day Fifteen: Favourite male character

Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

For most readers, Mockingbird is about racism and injustice, and the key scene is the trial of Tom Robinson. In my case, the novel is
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My opinion of Maugham's 'The Painted Veil' was based very much on the characters, and how I took to them (or not) as individual personalities; if a character is merely a fanciful name in a book, or a device to move the story along, then I find I cannot enter the fictional world they inhabit and I lose interest. Of course, it helps to have a plot ( Read more... )