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wombat1138...oookay, GRRM wasn't kidding when he originally said this book would be the other half of AFFC.
I can't even summon the indignation to stay awake. The travelogues are literally putting me to sleep. I've been gradually picking my way through the book for the past two days, and I just keep getting struck down by nap attacks of "oh god not more travelogues".
ISTR a publisher's comment on Usenet that one quick way to gauge a manuscript's quality when slushpile-wading is to flip through the pages and get a rough idea of the ratio of narrative passages to dialogue. The idea seemed to be finding the sweet spot that was neither too much description or too much dialogue.
I'm not sure what the perfect ratio was supposed to be, but this isn't it. Especially when the narration keeps making me pass out from boredom.
I can't even summon the indignation to stay awake. The travelogues are literally putting me to sleep. I've been gradually picking my way through the book for the past two days, and I just keep getting struck down by nap attacks of "oh god not more travelogues".
ISTR a publisher's comment on Usenet that one quick way to gauge a manuscript's quality when slushpile-wading is to flip through the pages and get a rough idea of the ratio of narrative passages to dialogue. The idea seemed to be finding the sweet spot that was neither too much description or too much dialogue.
I'm not sure what the perfect ratio was supposed to be, but this isn't it. Especially when the narration keeps making me pass out from boredom.