Any thoughts on the characters? The Kid? The Judge. I have read the book twice before but I am not reading along right now. It would be interesting to see what people think of these characters at this point.
They're both fantastic characters. You know very little about them in reality but there's a full profile to who they are. The judge speaks in long monologues, occassionally only tangentially related. and Glanton rarely says more than three word sentences, but they're very lingering characters regardless.
The kid is an odd character, because he's not much of a character at all. We meet him and find out about his life early on, but then he just becomes a backdrop against which the story is told. Glanton and the Judge seem to be whom the story is "actually" about. As for the Judge, I think he is an amazing character, and my favorite passages of the book are his long monologues.