Re: SF Writers' Work You Find Unreadable

"Sea Wasp" <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jon A. Bell wrote:

Anyone else feel this way? Is there another SF writer you try to get
into, but his/her writing just bothers you?

Many of the more respected "literary" ones. Moor***, Cherryh, Wolfe.
Umberto Eco has writing that is so beautiful I can't read it... because I
keep stopping to say "oh, that's a nice turn of phrase", which distracts
me from the actual book. I read books for the plot and cool ideas, and the
prose should NOT make me stop and admire it. It's there to convey ideas,
not show off.


I understand what you mean, but I've read a few books where the prose was
beautiful enough to "stop and admire," but then I got pulled immediately
back into the story. Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay was probably the
best example of this (to me.)

-- Jon


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