Suh also took issue with the good vs. evil story line.
"I won't tell you anything surprising: This terrible, evil story has made it harder.
This gripping, evil story made me beg and beg my parents until I got the full set.
(Cowen: "As a simple rule of thumb, just imagine every time you're telling a good vs. evil story, you're basically lowering your I.Q. by ten points or more").
The Times called it on publication "the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern", and it has lost none of its power to disturb.
The New York Tribune called it "one of the most thrilling stories we have ever read", the Outlook called it "distinctly repulsive", the Bookman "cruel and untrue", the Independent "the most hopelessly evil story that we could have read in any literature".
It's not exactly the typical good versus evil story – neither is fully redeemable or admirable, as a bomb-building former white supremacist ex-con and a shifty, quick-to-the-trigger lawman – but as they gear up to have their final battle, it looks like Boyd might actually be the better man of the two.
Do you honestly know what is going on in the Resident Evil story right now?
From Biafra to Rwanda, and now Darfur itself, the West has a long tradition of reducing them to good-versus-evil stories bereft not just of nuance but also of politics, history and complexity.
"Young people like romance stories and war stories and good-and-evil stories and old movies because their emotional life mostly is and should be fantasy," says Ken Noda, a great piano prodigy in his day who gave up public performance and now works at the Metropolitan Opera.
