I can't give you a concrete example in the same manner I can't point to one pixel of an image of a person and say that that is the pixel that captures the likeness of the person in that image.
What I can say is that people have a way of perceiving the world, and themselves in it. And the way Thompson navigates the world -- at least in his writing -- mirrors how I do it.
So I chose not to read something that is just a mirror of my everyday existence. I prefer to read things that cause me to see thigns i normally don't in my normal perception. This doesn't qualify Thompson as bad though.
To add onto this, this is why I appreciate Murakami and
Kazuo Ishiguro
so much. They are almost the shadow to my perception.
