Well, I'm not going to lose any sleep over his existence. I'm just expressing my opinion about the quality of his writing versus, as an example, having a hedgehog shoved up one's ass.
I can tolerate a weak or hackneyed plot in a book. Actually, in some cases, it is comforting to find, in a murder mystery, that the butler actually did it. I have no problem with formulaic stories, because oftentimes, the author still finds room to express themselves in the same old "boy meets girl, boy finds murder victim, boy solves crime" (as an example... I seem to fixated on murder mysteries... must by all the Rex Stout within reach).
I can't tolerate excessively poor writing. It's one thing if a sentence, here and there, runs on a bit. Or if a paragraph doesn't parse correctly.
However, what Pacione does to the English language should be considered a crime against humanity. (Or at least the English-speaking/reading portion thereof.)
Well, it's not on the top of my list either, but there's bad fiction (like say, Derleth's hackneyed attempts to force the various Lovecraftian mythos beasties into the elemental theory), and then there's BAD FICTION. Fiction that roams the streets, feral, dirty and unkempt. Sentences, paragraphs and chapters roaming willy-nilly, slinking through the gutters and sewers of the literary world, picking up whatever detritus they find, to supplement their vocabulary and grammar structure.
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The only thing keeping me from participating in this little mockery of Nicky-Poo is that I feel that the English language would never forgive me.
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(Anonymous) 2006-08-25 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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It's his rabid insistance that he's a good writer and the bile filled attacks that being critical of his writing generates.
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I can tolerate a weak or hackneyed plot in a book. Actually, in some cases, it is comforting to find, in a murder mystery, that the butler actually did it. I have no problem with formulaic stories, because oftentimes, the author still finds room to express themselves in the same old "boy meets girl, boy finds murder victim, boy solves crime" (as an example... I seem to fixated on murder mysteries... must by all the Rex Stout within reach).
I can't tolerate excessively poor writing. It's one thing if a sentence, here and there, runs on a bit. Or if a paragraph doesn't parse correctly.
However, what Pacione does to the English language should be considered a crime against humanity. (Or at least the English-speaking/reading portion thereof.)
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