Thread: How important is a character's likeability/relatability to you?
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Old 07-11-2014, 07:58 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by 4691mls View Post
I am OK with reading about a character who is somewhat different from me. As a naturally cautious person, I tend to get annoyed by characters who are always getting in trouble by behaving impulsively....
I like the early Perry Mason books for the very impulsiveness and recklessness he displays. He reminds me of Bill Clinton in a old Doonesbury cartoon. Al Gore is complaining that people don't like him. Clinton tells him that people don't like him because he's too smart. When Gore replies, "But you're smart, and people like you," Clinton tells him, "True. But I do stupid things." The early Mason was like that. Smart as he could be, but always taking unnecessary risks, albeit always on behalf of his clients, that kept him at all times one step shy of disbarment.
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