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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-05 06:50 pm

[ SECRET POST #2619 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

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

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[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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03.
[Pushing Daisies]


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[Dallas Buyers Club]


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[Bravely Default]


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[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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[Warehouse 13]


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[Willem Dafoe]


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[Dexter]


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[Rooster Teeth]


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[Lost Girl]


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(Anonymous) 2014-03-06 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you're just not a very good judge about that kind of thing. It's great that his writing works so well for you and that you don't think he's longwinded, but that doesn't mean he isn't. He's exceptionally longwinded and that works very well for The Hobbit and LotR because those books are about the world he created, not the characters or their story. But in general it's a terrible writing style precisely because it sacrifices the elements of storytelling and belabors insignicfant details.
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[personal profile] sarillia 2014-03-06 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say anything about how much I like his writing. I'm not generally one to mix up subjective reactions to objective observations. I don't conflate "I like this" with "this is good" like a lot of other people do.

But I will admit that I may have different points of reference for what "longwinded" looks like. If that's significantly different than what the majority of other readers think then maybe I'll just have to accept that I'm an outlier and he fits into the usual idea of longwinded.

It's just that I'm not sitting here going "I like the writing so it couldn't possibly be bad!". I'm thinking of all the other books I've read that are so much more longwinded than his books.