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If ever there was an author who could be described as Rambler or a waffler or indeed a Guilder of the lilly, it the Writer Dean Koontz. I've read loads of his books from the 'Odd' series to his latest spell binder and on every occasion I have put down the book and cried' Shut up and get on with it' The narrative is essential and the flesh in a book enriches the page, but please.
If a guy is being chased down by bad guys and seems to be being led to safety by a Cat- do we really need a page and half of filler to complete our visionof how his Mum felt and temperature of the back of his fridge on cold day in September - see he got me at it now...
O.M.G I just thought of worse rambler - Stephen Donaldson- 'The first and second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever'. what a fantastic Tome. Tolkienesk and the first book to make me sob after taking 3 days off to read the subsequent books , there are 9 now. The first 3 magical and then it crept in... by no.8 I was suicidal to see how the plot ends. Did he break the arch of time and kill every one...We may never know or indeed realise as we were bailing out the Book Boat.
Your thoughts please.
Thank you and a Merry Xmas |
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