David Goldfarb <goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote on Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:02:17 > > I read _TRiH_ first and thought it was mildly clever but mostly kind of > pointless. (My apologies to those of you who like it, but I have to call > them as I see them. When I first read it, I think I found it interesting, but was frustrated at how stupid the characters were behaving. When I reread it recently, I liked it more. I was more sympathetic to the characters; it read like a tragedy. > I especially disliked how you could tell which > side a given character would end up on by their name.) That was true for about a handful of characters, but I guess for the rest "ignorance is bliss": The names weren't familiar and didn't strike me as obviously belonging to one side or the other... ...Oh. Wait. *** (potential) Spoilers for To Reign in Hell *** How did you know Abdiel's side from his name? Was it the "iel" suffix -- did all such characters have the same allegiance? - tky