It still strikes me as strange that we only have one life's worth of experiences (at least, for all intents and purposes), and so, at any given point along the way, things only happen one particular way. You don't get to do it over or to try out the what-if possibilities, and you don't get to change the starting parameters. So I found myself thinking, as I read your last two paragraphs, "What must it have been like to have been within a group of *nine* friends?" But I'll never know, and you'll never have the chance to find out how a different dynamic would have been different.
You must have gone to a large high school if nine of you could find each other and become a world unto yourselves, and yet still be, as a unit, outsiders.
About the book: that switch does sound bewildering! Seems like if that's the way the author wanted to make the story go, there should have been more hints of it earlier on--make it evident from the start that this is sort of a YA Grisham-type story, or whatever. But if it's set up as totally naturalistic, then yeah, to suddenly overlayer it with a conspiracy story and life-and-death situations really changes the dynamic in a jarring way.
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Date: 2011-08-04 11:17 am (UTC)You must have gone to a large high school if nine of you could find each other and become a world unto yourselves, and yet still be, as a unit, outsiders.
About the book: that switch does sound bewildering! Seems like if that's the way the author wanted to make the story go, there should have been more hints of it earlier on--make it evident from the start that this is sort of a YA Grisham-type story, or whatever. But if it's set up as totally naturalistic, then yeah, to suddenly overlayer it with a conspiracy story and life-and-death situations really changes the dynamic in a jarring way.