[identity profile] anno-domino.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a carrier bag story. It's small and carefully pruned. If anything, it's a poem: every character, no matter how peripheral, every line written is there for three different carefully chosen reasons. (Can you tell I love this book?) But I also think it's a bit postmodern to be a Hero story.