On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:31:56AM -0600, Lawrence Jenab wrote:
> I get the same feeling. It's the one that hovers (IMO) over Glen Cook's
> later Garrett novels. For one thing, small plot elements begin to consume
> more and more pages. You get the feeling the author is mechanically moving
> the characters from place to place, rather than paring down exposition and
> description to the minimum necessary to support the hot-potato story he
> can't wait to get onto the page ("Now I'm going to show you something REALLY
> cool"). . . .
Exactly so. The early Garrett stories approached 'really cool.' By the
sixth or seventh I could look at a recent one and not remember if I'd
read it or not. They simply got mechanical.
--
"I try not to sound old and cynical, but it's hard to do that when
you're old and cynical."
-me