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The guy at the library who made me rethink how I talk about characters
I was in the fiction section of my local library last Tuesday, and this older guy overheard me complaining to a friend about a character in a book club pick who seemed totally flat. He just said, 'Maybe she's not flat, maybe you just haven't met her in the right light yet.' That hit me weird, because I'd been so quick to judge the writing instead of wondering if I just missed something. He told me his wife used to say every character is like a painting you have to walk around to see. Now I spend way more time thinking about what I might be missing before I call a book boring. Has anyone else ever had a random stranger totally flip how you see a story?
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