[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Narrative style

Barry Arrowsmith arrowsmithbt at btconnect.com
Mon Feb 21 15:12:38 UTC 2005


Just getting into this one.

So far the posts aren't so much about narrative style as such - more 
general critiques, recapping, plot holes, resolution devices etc. and 
comments on reviews of the books in newspapers,  mags and the like.

Unfortunately except for the Header category there's nowhere else for 
them to go. Personally I don't think it really matters, but since the 
vast majority of the material is not about style it might be easier to 
relabel the category rather than try to devise further sub-groupings 
that will probably never be truly distinct anyway. Something like 
'General comments and reviews on books' might be appropriate.


I note with distress that to mark the near-anniversary of that fateful 
day of a year ago you have chosen to characterise Kneasy's alter ego as 
a miserable old bugger, a curmudgeon, a grumpy old fart who has a 
problem for every solution.

Nothing could be further from the truth: mild as a cooted dove, the 
voice of reason, offering wise guidance gleaned during his considerable 
years of dealing with the unreasonable and with the milk of human 
kindness positively flooding from every pore.

Just watch it. Or else.
Remember I never  did finish the tale of the raddled, toothless, 
cellulitis-riddled old crones.

Barry





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