Re: “This impostor will wow you,” Jan. 10.
“You’ll be as hooked as a heroin addict craving his next fix.” That’s the simile Times Colonist movie reviewer Michael D. Reid uses in his review of The Impostor.
On the “fresh style” scale, this one doesn’t even rate. How many times over decades have writers used an addiction simile to try to construct some approximation of intense desire? As a literary device, comparing desire to drug addiction is so tired it’s off the scale, and not on the high side (please excuse the reference.) Any edgy-glam jolt from addiction references is long done and over.
We all know what addiction really is. Is there anyone left in Victoria who hasn’t been hurt or devastated by it, either personally or at a remove that shreds the heart?
Diane McNally
Victoria
