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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Adam Thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Forget food in _Evil Guest_; anyone else notice how many exotic shades of off-white through light-brown (or perhaps I should say birch through caffe-latte) are mentioned? What's up with that? (if this has been discussed before, I'm sorry--I've been trying NOT to read _EG_ posts until I got a chance to read the book, which I now have)<br>
<br>SPOILER below:<br><br>And is there agreement on what sort of beast-woman Cassie *is*? I like "Robin" because of the red plumage, the "the alien food isn't *really* worms", and of course the execrable Batman-cub joke. I don't think it's the right guess, though.<font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>We get an explanation from Gid for at least one character's preferred colour styling: werewolves wear shades of grey.</div>
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<div>I don't think Cassie is a beast woman, is she? She's gone up from human, not up from beast. </div>
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<div>Unless I've missed something, which is more than likely - this is a *damn* strange book. </div>
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<div>Eg: Almost all of the story is tightly focused on Cassie - we see what she sees, and so on. But there are three scenes where the focus is on Gid sans Cassie: at the start, when he's shot, and when he's spirited away from Cassie's apartment after being shot. After that: no more Gid-focus. I really don't understand that. If you're going to shift focus to another character at some points, why not at others, and why not to others?</div>
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<div>A bunch other things. Overall, either there's a lot of hidden stuff going on here (and Wolfe has taken some scary risks that people will just toss the book without caring enough to puzzle it out); or else he's jumped the Shark-God (except for the beautiful writing in the last third).</div>
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