Red Wheelbarrow

Amazon Reviews

April 8th, 2008

…the silent peer pressure of my book group led me to finish the book. You can certainly write a book with unlikeable characters, but to have this dislike spring from their passivity, rather than their actions (yes, yes, taking no action is, in effect, acting, I know), spells disaster for a rambling tome of 540 pages.

(Link)
I’d certainly take a dislike to a character who only finishes book because of peer pressure. Is there a lot of book peer pressure these days? Does the new trotting out stories of people waiting at midnight to buy the latest Harry Potter count as peer pressure? Only if you think they are your peers. And perhaps one can choose peers more carefully…

Entry Filed under: books