I'm reading All The Pretty Horses.
I know, it sounds like a mushy love story, but no, it's a
hardboiled 1940's Lonesome Dove kind of western. Excellent,
except towards the end the writer takes a major character
into this long explanation--which, I suspect, he's using to
pass along his own ideology.
Kind of ruined it for me. I mean, that stuff is okay for
non-fiction, but I like fiction simply for its entertainment
value.
Another thing. The writer doesn't use quotation marks, and in
many cases leaves out apostrophes, too. For example, doesnt,
and shouldnt. The crime novel, Run, doesn't have quotation
marks, either. In that book I had a difficult time separating
dialogue from narrative, but for some reason had no problem
with All The Pretty Horses.
One thing. Seems to me, a writer who submits a manuscript
with such lack of grammar, is either super confident or
mighty silly, because anyone who writes knows how difficult
it is to get a even the most perfectly manicured manuscript
published.
Charlie Taylorville, IL
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