You’re reading a novel. Great, good, indifferent; in any event, one that provides enough incentive to keep reading. And then you hit the chapter where the author lost track of what he was doing. This is not to be confused with the mere interesting controlled digression, like a red herring character in a murder mystery, […]
If someone tells you online or in person that he’s just read a book by a given writer and pronounces it superior, you cannot win an argument about the quality of the writer by declaring that you gave up reading that writer’s works twenty years ago, and especially not if you hated one book that […]
John Scalzi wrote, “the fetishization of Robert Heinlein creeps me the fuck out.” Me, too. And let me explain precisely what I do, and don’t, mean by that.… First, this is what Heinlein means to me. I have read every single one of his novels. Including THAT one that gives you a sick feeling in […]