[ SECRET POST #6364 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6364 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed re: the juvenile, pulpy style. You're also right about older books seeming better because only the better ones tend to stick around. But tastes have changed over time, and editing has gotten a little light handed, IMO, and that doesn't help.

[(Anonymous)]

The editing issue goes hand in hand with a lot of booktok's issues imo -- a lot of books popular on booktok also originated there, with trope-focused marketing and influencer hype, and all the focus is on getting it out there quick before the next big hot thing drops. There's no time for refining the narrative or editing the books into something good, getting it out fast is more important.

[feotakahari]

Possibly relevant: Novelization Style http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2016/03/21/narrators-visible-and-not/ It's about authors who write books like they're movie or TV show scripts, with obvious "cuts" between scenes and extreme Show, Don't Tell.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. I'm on the second part of this essay, and I'm not sure that what they're describing is the problem, per se. I've definitely read books where I've thought, "this is a script, not a novel," but that's distinct from the sense of a work being juvenile.

Also, I've got to say, I'd like to know what that writer is smoking to have found Detective Miller and Jim Holden's scenes to be written exactly the same. Miller's scenes are in a noticeably noir style.