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Scott
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Username: Scott
Post Number: 1000
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 3:59 am: |     |
Darci, welcome to the board.
Nobody is disrespecting anyone but complaining about a decline in talent or lack thereof is definitely fair gain. Read any of Atwood's stuff recently? The woman is like a roller coaster...
Scott
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Miisa
flint knapper
Username: Miisa
Post Number: 710
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 10:42 am: | |
My take on why I don't like Corwell as much lately is the same reasons I have started to dislike Anne Rice and a few other prolific and popular writers;
a)a pressure to produce new books faster than the creative flow would allow
and
b)their self-confidence (and clout) has ballooned to the point of defying editors and other who help keep the story in check. |
Sallyo (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 5:54 am: | |
Having a protagonist/hero with an exceedingly odd appearance is difficult to get past an editor. Most of them would expect such a book to be a "realism" book about the problems the odd appearance caused the protagonist, and not a normal fiction novel. In some genres you really are stuck with TDH heroes. |
S.S. (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 9:26 pm: | |
Patricia Cornwell's books have definitely declined. I just finished "Black Notice" a couple weeks ago & "The Last Precinct" this week.
At first they were mostly forensics & some thriller. Now it is largely a giant conspiracy against Kay & the people in her life. Each book adds to history so you see more & more cases & things in Kay's life that were separate are now all part of one ever-growing loop.
Now I'm frustrated that she's changing tenses and points of view. The tense change from past tense to present tense in "The Last Precinct" didn't bother me too much since it started pretty much where the last book left off.
But, today I picked up "Blow Fly" and discovered that it is written in third person! When so much of the previous books have been the thinking that goes on inside Kay's head, I'm just baffled. I don't know if I'll be able to read it that way. |
princess (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 12:23 pm: | |
hey... i also want to add my 50 cents. i never hheard of patricia untill a few weeks ago when i was bored out of my mind and decided to pick up a book. black notice was ok (sometimes it would get to tedious cz she spent to much time xplaining whats in a wall in a room) and am reading last precint (too long to get to the point) and i just discovered that there is a third one??? why do they do this to us? cant they just write one book one story?? anyway i still prefer virginia andrew |
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