Post by deplancher on Apr 28, 2021 15:18:12 GMT
Hello, JaneVC:
Merci beaucoup for sending us your Riding The RAGBRAI for consideration.
It's a tale with not really too much going on, je pense. While the style of delivery makes it quite a fluid read (to your writerly credit), and there are glimpses of character development, there exists within this text a kind of shopping list of places and events wherein nothing much actually occurs. The exception I suppose is the suggestion at the end that Chuck might finally have met in Ann a potential mate. This conclusion is neither unpredictable nor particularly interesting, despite it being heartening in a cliché way. In a sense, RAGBRAI leaves this reader with the sense of having spent a brief foray into map reading: names of places not necessarily travelled yet familiar in their featureless mediocrity.
My advice, should you care to consider it is to ask yourself: whose journey is this and why might it be significant to anyone reading the account of its unfolding?
The TQR Monkey, wise beyond every one of us Readlings here declares no go for RAGBRAI. He does, for what it's worth, think the title is rather a grabber.
Many thanks for your submission, and especially for your patience in awaiting our response which took entirely too long to be considered reasonable. I have been asleep under a large and heavy stone.
Sincerely,
G. DePlancher
for:
www.tqrstories.com
Merci beaucoup for sending us your Riding The RAGBRAI for consideration.
It's a tale with not really too much going on, je pense. While the style of delivery makes it quite a fluid read (to your writerly credit), and there are glimpses of character development, there exists within this text a kind of shopping list of places and events wherein nothing much actually occurs. The exception I suppose is the suggestion at the end that Chuck might finally have met in Ann a potential mate. This conclusion is neither unpredictable nor particularly interesting, despite it being heartening in a cliché way. In a sense, RAGBRAI leaves this reader with the sense of having spent a brief foray into map reading: names of places not necessarily travelled yet familiar in their featureless mediocrity.
My advice, should you care to consider it is to ask yourself: whose journey is this and why might it be significant to anyone reading the account of its unfolding?
The TQR Monkey, wise beyond every one of us Readlings here declares no go for RAGBRAI. He does, for what it's worth, think the title is rather a grabber.
Many thanks for your submission, and especially for your patience in awaiting our response which took entirely too long to be considered reasonable. I have been asleep under a large and heavy stone.
Sincerely,
G. DePlancher
for:
www.tqrstories.com