My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.