LOL! My lack of participation in critique groups shows... or doesn't
show... now I'm getting confused.
On 12/19/2010 1:22 PM, delancey wrote:
I really felt you were telling me, and not showing me, how much you
distrust the critique group.
On Dec 19, 11:59 am, Eric Scoles<[email protected]> wrote:
I've read very few books that wouldn't get torn apart in a critique
group. *Zero
History* would get savaged for awkward use of metaphor and flat tension.*
Anything by Ted Chiang would get dismissed out of hand for 'too much
telling'. *Catch-22* would be criticized for poor grammar/style and
confusing plot. *Huckleberry Finn* for plodding narrative passages;
Hemingway for lack of description; Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor and J. D.
Salinger for lack of sympathetic characters.
**
Critique groups are a rarified environment rich with gases that are toxic
with sustained consumption.
**
Language and metaphor duly noted and filed for future stealing and
embellishment.
I find it's important to get out and breath some
non-critique-group air if I want to actually enjoy reading.
--
*I don't find it this way, but based on what I've seen people say about
other books in a similar style, I think a lot of people would.
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Gary Mitchell
<[email protected]>wrote:
I am reading Hull 30 based on this list. It is plodding and heavy. It would
get beaten up in any book critique group that I have ever been in. Every
time I pick it up and start reading, I fall asleep. I have enjoyed Greg
Bear
much more in other things I've read.
Gary
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Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:16 PM
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Subject: Re: spec fic picks
I read the Cronin. It was truly a mystery why it got an ocean of
publicity, stacks at Wegmans, etc. It was a laborious vampire novel
-- kind of two novels stuck together, actually. Fair, but not
original and really very slow. He's a "literary" writer who switched
to vampires, and I think the publisher thought they could sell him as
the Cormac McCarthy of vampires. It worked for McCarthy, even though
he's a crap writer, so I guess that was a good idea on their part.
Cronin has presold the movie rights, is promising a long series, etc.,
so we may hear more about him.
But, really, the Cronin book is positively minor league compared to
THE WINDUP GIRL. Or ZERO HISTORY.
cd
On Dec 14, 11:29 pm, Alicia Henn<[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/13/131905654/otherworldly----the-year-s-mo...
Here's one critic's picks for the best spec fic of 2010. Has anyone
read any of these? Any opinions?
Alicia
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