I really felt you were telling me, and not showing me, how much you distrust the critique group.
On Dec 19, 11:59 am, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > I've read very few books that wouldn't get torn apart in a critique > group. *Zero > History* would get savaged for awkward use of metaphor and flat tension.* > Anything by Ted Chiang would get dismissed out of hand for 'too much > telling'. *Catch-22* would be criticized for poor grammar/style and > confusing plot. *Huckleberry Finn* for plodding narrative passages; > Hemingway for lack of description; Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor and J. D. > Salinger for lack of sympathetic characters. > > Critique groups are a rarified environment rich with gases that are toxic > with sustained consumption. I find it's important to get out and breath some > non-critique-group air if I want to actually enjoy reading. > > -- > *I don't find it this way, but based on what I've seen people say about > other books in a similar style, I think a lot of people would. > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Gary Mitchell > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > I am reading Hull 30 based on this list. It is plodding and heavy. It would > > get beaten up in any book critique group that I have ever been in. Every > > time I pick it up and start reading, I fall asleep. I have enjoyed Greg > > Bear > > much more in other things I've read. > > > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of > > delancey > > Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:16 PM > > To: R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association > > Subject: Re: spec fic picks > > > I read the Cronin. It was truly a mystery why it got an ocean of > > publicity, stacks at Wegmans, etc. It was a laborious vampire novel > > -- kind of two novels stuck together, actually. Fair, but not > > original and really very slow. He's a "literary" writer who switched > > to vampires, and I think the publisher thought they could sell him as > > the Cormac McCarthy of vampires. It worked for McCarthy, even though > > he's a crap writer, so I guess that was a good idea on their part. > > Cronin has presold the movie rights, is promising a long series, etc., > > so we may hear more about him. > > > But, really, the Cronin book is positively minor league compared to > > THE WINDUP GIRL. Or ZERO HISTORY. > > > cd > > > On Dec 14, 11:29 pm, Alicia Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.npr.org/2010/12/13/131905654/otherworldly----the-year-s-mo... > > > > Here's one critic's picks for the best spec fic of 2010. Has anyone > > > read any of these? Any opinions? > > > > Alicia > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- > -- > eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
