tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008954639175647714.post5461798154836326596..comments2024-01-06T01:32:29.535-05:00Comments on reading avidly dot com: The Night of the Rambler, by Montague KobbéNancyOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12027036137062767840noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008954639175647714.post-62691860425254022952013-11-08T12:33:19.004-05:002013-11-08T12:33:19.004-05:00Hi and thanks for commenting! I am always tickled ...Hi and thanks for commenting! I am always tickled when an author takes a moment to say something about my take on his or her novel. I have to say that I've been recommending this book to everyone I know (despite my annoyance with the perspective issue), because a) it is so well written and b) I love historical fiction, especially when there's some event I've never heard of before that is being written about. I think that my problem with being yanked out of the historical period is that I was so into it! Not a slam at all on you -- that's personal. <br><br>I'm definitely looking forward to the next one so you'll probably be reading about it here as well. If you can create characters so real and human as the ones in Night of the Rambler in your next work, I'm sure I'll like it as much as I did this one.NancyOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12027036137062767840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008954639175647714.post-75272514853849400772013-11-08T11:27:57.283-05:002013-11-08T11:27:57.283-05:00Hi Nancy,Thanks for your kind review of The Night ...Hi Nancy,<br><br>Thanks for your kind review of The Night of the Rambler. I'm particularly pleased that you enjoyed the digressions into the characters' backstories, especially considering you didn't like them so much at the start. Nothing like changing a reader's mind halfway through!<br><br>As for the narrator, well, that is a bone of contention! Again, I'm quite pleased it took you out of the historical setting because that is precisely its function. Obviously, I'm not so pleased that you didn't like to be yanked out of the story, despite the sense of perspective this might provide.<br><br>Either way, thanks for sharing your thoughts about my novel. I hope you've been sufficiently intrigued to hang around for the next one!<br><br>All the best,<br><br><br>MMONTAGUE KOBBEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10793926040558512177noreply@blogger.com