I like reading fun books. I like writing fun books. This make come as a surprise since I often complain about not being able to enjoy most books, which gives some the impression that I have hoity-toity tastes. Which I do, but not always. Very personally I have specific ideas about books, mainly to do with prose. It’s not the most popular opinion ever but I don’t think of prose as simply a vehicle for story. There are plenty of high-concept books with the most hooky, exciting premises ever but if I crack its Kindle sample open and find the prose along the line of Charlaine Harris or Dan Brown I’m going to close the tab. No ideas are so fantastic that they cannot be ruined by poor writing. I’m not going to care about your characters or plot or concepts if the sentence level is simply bad or so dull that my eyes keep glazing over trying to read it.
On Fun Books and Discourse
On Fun Books and Discourse
On Fun Books and Discourse
I like reading fun books. I like writing fun books. This make come as a surprise since I often complain about not being able to enjoy most books, which gives some the impression that I have hoity-toity tastes. Which I do, but not always. Very personally I have specific ideas about books, mainly to do with prose. It’s not the most popular opinion ever but I don’t think of prose as simply a vehicle for story. There are plenty of high-concept books with the most hooky, exciting premises ever but if I crack its Kindle sample open and find the prose along the line of Charlaine Harris or Dan Brown I’m going to close the tab. No ideas are so fantastic that they cannot be ruined by poor writing. I’m not going to care about your characters or plot or concepts if the sentence level is simply bad or so dull that my eyes keep glazing over trying to read it.