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Originally Posted by issybird
Of course they will. But a narrator could easily influence a reader to interpret a text differently than the reader would have independently. I did say it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but something's lost there that you get when the reader confronts a text cold.
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Indeed, but the question was whether that alone is a valid reason to suffer the scorn of your book club.
"No, you're not allowed to have your perceptions influenced by anything!"
I don't think it is.