Now imagine this inflation technique being applied to every single aspect of every single item or idea in the book.Īs to the story itself, I wasn't sure at first if it was self-delusional or clever irony. That disaster, it seems, had." Oh, yeah, we get a description of nearly every grain of sand as she brushes it off her skin. Scores of people undertook the task of re-creating it after the ecologic disaster. The beach that, until recently, hadn't been there. It was warm and she enjoyed the breeze." He changes it to be, "Kim was at the beach. His first draft is, "Kim was at the beach. It feels like the author has done just that. In either case, it's tedious.ĭo you remember when you had to write a 500-word essay for school and your first draft was only 300 words? You'd read through it and find places you could expand it. In other cases, it's the boring musings of the main character. Sometimes it's the ship's AI computer speaking out its (literal) narrative of the story. This book is nearly 500 pages of dense, boring narrative. Narrative, on the other hand, is the worst. Having two characters discuss something allows the reader to participate. My creative writing teacher said that conversation is the most interesting way for an author to convey information. This is one of the worst books I've read in recent memory.
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