[ SECRET POST #1575 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1575 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL/EMOTIONAL ABUSE

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TRIGGER WARNING FOR INCEST, RAPE

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And to me that prose is dry and dull. Different strokes, I guess.

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

Different strokes to be sure, but seriously - and I'm not asking this to be a dick, but because I'm honestly curious and aware of the fact that I am a huge lit snob - could you give me an example of what you think is "good" prose? Like, just a novel or author or whatever?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you'll probably think I'm part of the unwashed masses (she said jokingly; not trying to start a war here) but I like John Green's writing style a lot (though his stories are eerily and kind of annoyingly similar). One of my favorite books is "From the Corner of His Eye" by Dean Koontz (but I wholly recognize that there's nothing high-brow and amazing about it, it's just really readable, to me. Ditto JK Rowling).

There's a book called "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank that I liked. Lamb by Chris Moore (though, not really Moore's other books) was good, and Steven King has a chapter in his memoir "On Writing" that goes into the time he was hit by a van and nearly killed in a very vivid way without being at all gory. Those pages were perhaps the best things I've ever read. If I owned it, I would copy a passage, but it was a library book. (But one day I will buy it and love it forever.)

And I was really surprised to like The Time Traveler's Wife.

So, yeah. I guess I'm kind of a mainstream, easy-reader. I don't really feel like pulling out the books I DO own and retyping right now, but maybe later.

[(Anonymous)]

"But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there."

From 'Neuromancer,' by William Gibson.

Gibson makes everything come alive for me. The stream-of-consciousness style, the sparse description -- something about it completely immerses me.