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Zoracle Zed posted:I posted this in the main SFF thread last week when Neil Stephenson's The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. came up. Nobody felt like defending it there so I might as well repost it here. Even for Stephenson it's bad. There's no rhythm in that prose. It hurts to read.
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My favourite part of Christie mysteries are how all the characters, when quizzed by the detective, can say things like "I heard a loud bang at 5:47, and saw a dark figure running away at 6:13." So precise!! (That and trying to work out from context what a counterpane or an antimacassar is.) nankeen posted:that is dependent on the quality of the library and its curators of course, i'm in a rural area now and if i tried the old trick i'd end up with nine large-print bloodless english mysteries from 1965 and something called "great australian farmhouses of the golden age", plus i'd probably get arrested Oh, you've visited my town then? Tree Bucket fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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