From: gerryqq@gmail.com   
      
   In article ,   
   mdhangton@gmail.com says...   
   > On Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:33:20 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > > I like it.  I know what it's saying.  I'm not confused by any of it.  And   
   the fellow, John, who needs the cat because he's an alcoholic is engaging.   
   > >   
   > > I can see why you might have decided that it was "lame" but really, you   
   agonize over the passage but a reader doesn't stay there that long.  Don't   
   worry about it.   
   > >   
   >   
   > What I think is that maybe it's melodramatic or cliched.  It seems like all   
   detectives are recovering from something or other these days.   
   >   
   > I got involved with this story a couple months ago...it's the closest thing   
   to literary fiction I've tried to do thus far.  It's a cat story -- the main   
   characters are the POV guy and the feral kitten he gets.  There isn't so much   
   verbal dialog.  It    
   has problems.  I'm bogged down in it.   
      
   I'm fine with it.  It doesn't seem particularly cliched to me, but then   
   again that can easily depend on someone's reading history.   
      
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