Post by rockefeller on Jul 15, 2022 20:28:14 GMT
There was, as far as I could read, which was not terribly far, technically nothing wrong with Honovich's Cheshara's Ribbon novelette. The 1st person narrator's provincial voice, for me, grated a little, but was strong and consistent. The details are credible in a generic sort of way.
Lying abed this morning, I asked Ms. Rocks if she thought "half dead" was an idiom or a cliche. She was probably still a little pissed at me for not calling when a jam session in the mall ran a little longer than I'd anticipated last night. Wasn't until my cell phone's alarm beeped that it was time for her warfarin that I realized how the time had flown. Her "I don't know [care]" suggested all was not yet forgiven, so I opined that it was both. But then most idioms are. In the cap under discussion here, a stranger and his horse are described as "half-dead," which is why I recount the above fascinating exchange between Ms Rocks and myself. Though, upon reflection, "half-dead" was repeated efficiently and effectively enough as an adjective. So now I'm thinking most adjectives, indeed words, are idioms, language itself a broadly adopted cliche.
So why did I stop reading a perfectly good yarn on or around page 5 (of 30)? Personal tastes, of course. I'm just not into made up stories in general and fantasy in particular. For me, fiction must not be... well... fictitious. Though lots is. But my personal biases and jadedness re most things literary is unlikely to be of any help or inspiration to the VC.
I guess this cap just felt derivative of a plethora of similar entertainments, albeit of which I am similarly (and mercifully) not familiar. I did, years ago, as a boy, try to read Lord of the Rings, and had even less success than I have every time I've tried to read any version (even the supposedly humorous ones) of The Bible. Made up shit, true or not, just bores me. I need firsthand knowledge and/or research that inspires real suspension of disbelief and imparts knowledge and understandings in excess of my own. I think it was Vonnegut who advised, "Don't waste your reader's time." So an 11,000+ word story has to be a lot stronger than a, say, 5000 word one for me to push it up to our overworked terminali. Therefor, this is a hard pass.
Lying abed this morning, I asked Ms. Rocks if she thought "half dead" was an idiom or a cliche. She was probably still a little pissed at me for not calling when a jam session in the mall ran a little longer than I'd anticipated last night. Wasn't until my cell phone's alarm beeped that it was time for her warfarin that I realized how the time had flown. Her "I don't know [care]" suggested all was not yet forgiven, so I opined that it was both. But then most idioms are. In the cap under discussion here, a stranger and his horse are described as "half-dead," which is why I recount the above fascinating exchange between Ms Rocks and myself. Though, upon reflection, "half-dead" was repeated efficiently and effectively enough as an adjective. So now I'm thinking most adjectives, indeed words, are idioms, language itself a broadly adopted cliche.
So why did I stop reading a perfectly good yarn on or around page 5 (of 30)? Personal tastes, of course. I'm just not into made up stories in general and fantasy in particular. For me, fiction must not be... well... fictitious. Though lots is. But my personal biases and jadedness re most things literary is unlikely to be of any help or inspiration to the VC.
I guess this cap just felt derivative of a plethora of similar entertainments, albeit of which I am similarly (and mercifully) not familiar. I did, years ago, as a boy, try to read Lord of the Rings, and had even less success than I have every time I've tried to read any version (even the supposedly humorous ones) of The Bible. Made up shit, true or not, just bores me. I need firsthand knowledge and/or research that inspires real suspension of disbelief and imparts knowledge and understandings in excess of my own. I think it was Vonnegut who advised, "Don't waste your reader's time." So an 11,000+ word story has to be a lot stronger than a, say, 5000 word one for me to push it up to our overworked terminali. Therefor, this is a hard pass.