OOP: Literary Themes of the books

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 63698

In discussing OOP in another place, I encountered a person who stated that the books didn't have any depth and weren't thinking man's material--though he acknowledged they were a good story.  According to him, the stories are "chock full of simple moral lessons.  It's about good vs evil.  White hats vs white black hats.  And the shades of gray aren't that gray when the dust settles at the end of each story."

Needless to say, I disagree.  And in disagreeing I am trying to do a rudimentary analysis of the literary themes involved in the books so I can present them to him as a counterargument.  Now along with those go two questions.

1) Anyone know of a site out there that already discusses the themes of the books in a clear concise reasoned manner?  Yes, I could look back through the archives here but that's, well, a bit time consuming.

2) What do y'all think are the themes of the books?  So far, I've identified the following:

Things are not as they seem (which includes the racial and class prejudice angles)
The parent/child relationship (which includes coming of age)
The master/servant relationship
Unity and division
Choice and Identity

Now I'm sure there are things I haven't identified yet.  Any ideas?

Oh, and I OOP'ed this so if folks felt the urge to provide examples from OOP they could.

Thanks,
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Gregory Lynn


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