very good book. i wish she had written more. .. have you ever come across somebody in your writing that you have not been able to sympathize with because of their actions? this guy, did he do anything that you personally can t justify it to yourself? in your looking at this guy. many things that i found reprehensible, absolutely. again, you know, the things that i was drawn to, that i found most compelling in terms of him being a character. he was very paradoxical. so, yes. you know, he was engaged in this enterprise at face value that was very brutal. go kill these animals and bring them back. i guess that could be morally reprehensible. at the same time as i said my objective was to try and see it from their point of view and see what was going on. you know, he wasn t the only to be there were definitely characters in the book that i found to my research that were morally passed the point of ambivalence. there were just jerks. i didn t want to write about them. [applaud