GOD. It looks like it'd be such a fucking amazing thing to do,and the only thing that I can think of is, like, location issues? And worries about PC'nes sbecause this was the mid-nineties, after all. God, Sharpe's gratefulness to Lawford for teaching him how to readis pretty goddamn amazing.
By the way. You mentioned the dearth of good Archie, and I don't have a v. good grasp of what you're looking for in him, but this is one of the best ones I've ever read, I think. I mean, it takes one of the themes that shit writers love to mess up the most -- omgzzzz Simpson rap3d arhciekins!!11 -- and it makes it good on so many levels.
I love the way the author handles the social question. The Simpson dynamic is subtle and soul-creeping, and above all, oh my God, I adore the way that the author handles Archie. He's not a wussy crybaby, he won't let himself be, and yet, after reading, you get a wonderfully clear, powerful understanding of why Simpson was able to fuck him up in the way that he did. *___*
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Date: 2006-01-31 02:25 am (UTC)By the way. You mentioned the dearth of good Archie, and I don't have a v. good grasp of what you're looking for in him, but this is one of the best ones I've ever read, I think. I mean, it takes one of the themes that shit writers love to mess up the most -- omgzzzz Simpson rap3d arhciekins!!11 -- and it makes it good on so many levels.
I love the way the author handles the social question. The Simpson dynamic is subtle and soul-creeping, and above all, oh my God, I adore the way that the author handles Archie. He's not a wussy crybaby, he won't let himself be, and yet, after reading, you get a wonderfully clear, powerful understanding of why Simpson was able to fuck him up in the way that he did. *___*