As a novel it lacks the vibrant characters, sharp conflict or entertaining dialogue of good fiction.
The always entertaining dialogue was as stylised as the action: "You scale a mountain of ifs and I would add to its peak".
Ms. Robin wrote for HBO's popular "Six Feet Under," and like many playwrights who also work in television, she can produce reams of chatty, entertaining dialogue for characters that audiences will find cozily familiar.
Only the second (Ironhide) and fifth (Starscream) levels have entertaining dialogue.
While writing about the plot and the picturization, Rediff.com concluded: : "The script is engaging; the dialogues entertaining, witty and yet quite profound.
"Now, if any Broadway producer would entertain a dialogue with Cate and Andrew, and it was profitable for the Sydney Theater Company, it is something that she and Andrew would consider".
And though it is certainly possible for musicians to meet the rock thrust and challenge it, or to engage with it playfully, or to entertain a dialogue with particular aspects or samples of rock (as, indeed, Mr. Lang did here in his re-settings of two Lou Reed texts from Velvet Underground numbers), too many of Sunday's participants were overpowered by the encounter.
I paid my homage at a safe distance, in a wallflower way: by entertaining the troops with dialogue from "Three Women," Altman's hypnotic and hilarious 1977 film about personality theft, starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek.
Although his books became slighter as they appeared more frequently, Parker's ability to sketch in scenes and characters quickly, usually through dialogue, kept them entertaining.
I think what is holding me hostage to page 46 is the language: the big fat bursts of Chaucerian English, sprinkled with slang and jaunty dialogue that, while entertaining me, is also leaving me a little lost.
