I'm not sure I've read any other novels with a self-acknowledged sadist for a protagonist. I'm not sure that I want to. I like that Mathews tackles issues of complicity in a larger system head-on, and that there are no clearly right answers -- a lot like Butler, that way, in fact.
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Date: 2005-01-25 07:29 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I've read any other novels with a self-acknowledged sadist for a protagonist. I'm not sure that I want to. I like that Mathews tackles issues of complicity in a larger system head-on, and that there are no clearly right answers -- a lot like Butler, that way, in fact.