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 After class Thursday I was thinking about the same cartoon-ness idea, but I had taken it in another direction.  We said in class that the majority of us had thought of our friends as the least cartoon-like because we knew them the best and felt close to them.  I was thinking that maybe it isn't all how the author writes the characters, but that it is also dependent on how we feel for the book.  I said that the characters in Generosity are more cartoon-like for me than the characters in The Plague are.  I think that this has a lot more to do with the fact that I've been enjoying reading The Plague, and have allowed myself to get close to the characters.  I feel like even if an author has written cold and distant characters, if the reader really wants to they can find a way to become close to the character (which can be the same as getting close to a friend who is often cold and distant).