I guess there are no really likable characters like there are in, IDK, Heinlein (99% why I keep coming back to Heinlein, honestly) but I think people like Amanda Bates are fairly likable. Susan James, ditto, Isaac Szpindel, Chelsea is definitely sympathetic. Siri's father, his friend, they all seem pretty good people--this isn't a book I'd point to and say it's got unlikable characters. (For that, I would like to point ALL my fingers at Wuthering Heights. That book stretched my tolerance to its breaking point.) I dunno. Admittedly, the scramblers and the kind of existential emptiness that Watts employs kills a lot of the cozy human factor, but the humans seem fairly average on the sympathetic/kill with fire front. They have to be, after all, to contrast with the scramblers and with Sarasti.
Though Siri's POV is also a contributing factor. He so clearly does not get it that it's easy to transfer that to the other characters.
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Date: 2014-11-26 05:03 am (UTC)Though Siri's POV is also a contributing factor. He so clearly does not get it that it's easy to transfer that to the other characters.