Post by rorschalk on Feb 7, 2022 20:24:59 GMT
Dear Mr. VC,
This may be the record for lag time in TQR history, but LM has finally been adjudicated. Not in favor, but at least you finally have an answer. I'll paste Rockefeller's take on it down below and I look forward to doing business with you in the future. You'll not have to wait this long for a yay or nay here ever again or I'll eat my silken pantaloons.
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So I took a few runs at this Laughing Man cap, even made it more or less all the way through once. First time, I only read a few pages before I was interrupted, and then, a day later, couldn't remember a thing about it. Weird. A teflon story. It's not badly written. A few minor stumbles like, "...explored shops in the new building that sold hemp clothes and a gift shop," that made me go, Huh? Maybe a "laid" that should've been a lay. But really nothing to slow me down or get in the way of the story, which was about someone hooking up with someone and moving in together and losing his job because of an alcoholic "friend." In a way, it was pretty lifelike, though not necessarily in a good way. More a meaningless way.
Biggest problem was POV. It has none. I thought it eventually sort of loosely settled onto Randy's, but after just now having re-reread the first few pages, I wasn't sure. As always with this fly-on-the-wall (objective) point of view, it's at least 75% dialog with most of the rest tags. Not unclever, but still I'd have stopped eavesdropping if I were the fly.
I don't think I've lost interest in reading. Like I'm rereading Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest, mostly just to get to the scene where the little alien probe that's been two centuries traveling to Earth is intercepted by humanity's mighty fleet of 2015 giant warships with all sorts of high-tech weaponry. They're all there so that our great victory's glory can be shared equally. Earth is celebrating! Except the little probe is made of some new type of matter that, with its advanced computing and technologies, lets it destroy in minutes all but a few of the mighty ships (who manage to escape) just by ramming them. I like how Cixin deals with our scientific and military hubris.
More than ever now, I need my fiction to say something. Take a stand. Mock. Worship. Observe and comment. Research is pretty important, too, unless the VC is already experienced or otherwise knowledgeable in some field. I don't need to agree, or even totally understand, but I do need to learn something. So this here "No!" might be more about me than the wordsmithery here. Another reader might well relate, be enlightened and entertained.
This may be the record for lag time in TQR history, but LM has finally been adjudicated. Not in favor, but at least you finally have an answer. I'll paste Rockefeller's take on it down below and I look forward to doing business with you in the future. You'll not have to wait this long for a yay or nay here ever again or I'll eat my silken pantaloons.
***
So I took a few runs at this Laughing Man cap, even made it more or less all the way through once. First time, I only read a few pages before I was interrupted, and then, a day later, couldn't remember a thing about it. Weird. A teflon story. It's not badly written. A few minor stumbles like, "...explored shops in the new building that sold hemp clothes and a gift shop," that made me go, Huh? Maybe a "laid" that should've been a lay. But really nothing to slow me down or get in the way of the story, which was about someone hooking up with someone and moving in together and losing his job because of an alcoholic "friend." In a way, it was pretty lifelike, though not necessarily in a good way. More a meaningless way.
Biggest problem was POV. It has none. I thought it eventually sort of loosely settled onto Randy's, but after just now having re-reread the first few pages, I wasn't sure. As always with this fly-on-the-wall (objective) point of view, it's at least 75% dialog with most of the rest tags. Not unclever, but still I'd have stopped eavesdropping if I were the fly.
I don't think I've lost interest in reading. Like I'm rereading Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest, mostly just to get to the scene where the little alien probe that's been two centuries traveling to Earth is intercepted by humanity's mighty fleet of 2015 giant warships with all sorts of high-tech weaponry. They're all there so that our great victory's glory can be shared equally. Earth is celebrating! Except the little probe is made of some new type of matter that, with its advanced computing and technologies, lets it destroy in minutes all but a few of the mighty ships (who manage to escape) just by ramming them. I like how Cixin deals with our scientific and military hubris.
More than ever now, I need my fiction to say something. Take a stand. Mock. Worship. Observe and comment. Research is pretty important, too, unless the VC is already experienced or otherwise knowledgeable in some field. I don't need to agree, or even totally understand, but I do need to learn something. So this here "No!" might be more about me than the wordsmithery here. Another reader might well relate, be enlightened and entertained.