Well, maybe 'vile' was a little harsh. What was happening was vile, but that's not to say the writing itself was vile. It was the epitome of nightmarish, though. I'm rarely a fan of the hallucinatory. It feels like a short cut to me, like the author has decided to skip the stage where she builds a connection with the reader and leads them deftly into a state of mind, and has decided to simply jab at their buttons instead.
hard for me to see how to prettify this for the reader, let alone why a writer would want to.
For me it's not about 'prettifying,' but about making it more poignant and less crude.
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Date: 2011-02-13 04:36 am (UTC)hard for me to see how to prettify this for the reader, let alone why a writer would want to.
For me it's not about 'prettifying,' but about making it more poignant and less crude.