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Reading, writing and rain
May. 24th, 2006 09:20 pmIt has poured with rain for most of the last 2 days.
I have read 4 novels over the weekend. Two of them are by friends, one unpublished as yet, and the other about to be published (really good stuff, too). I also read Kim Stanley Robinson's FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN (very quickly, because my mother wanted to read it) - I liked this a great deal, but I like Stan Robinson's work generally. Interesting to see someone addressing issues within philosophy of science, including the conditions for a paradigm shift.
The other book was Patricia Cornwell's BLACK NOTICE, which annoyed me, then annoyed me more, to the point where I skipped to the ending. The forensic stuff was interesting, but the morality was very simplistic and so were the villains. Also she has a bad case of adverb-itis. I'll be giving her work a miss in future.
Apart from this, on with the novel, which is now cranked up to 76K but undergoing substantial re-writes in the process. I always do this, though, so it's not a matter for great concern. Just irritation with my own creative process. At least the book is making me think, as far as themes and metaphors go.
I have read 4 novels over the weekend. Two of them are by friends, one unpublished as yet, and the other about to be published (really good stuff, too). I also read Kim Stanley Robinson's FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN (very quickly, because my mother wanted to read it) - I liked this a great deal, but I like Stan Robinson's work generally. Interesting to see someone addressing issues within philosophy of science, including the conditions for a paradigm shift.
The other book was Patricia Cornwell's BLACK NOTICE, which annoyed me, then annoyed me more, to the point where I skipped to the ending. The forensic stuff was interesting, but the morality was very simplistic and so were the villains. Also she has a bad case of adverb-itis. I'll be giving her work a miss in future.
Apart from this, on with the novel, which is now cranked up to 76K but undergoing substantial re-writes in the process. I always do this, though, so it's not a matter for great concern. Just irritation with my own creative process. At least the book is making me think, as far as themes and metaphors go.
