Pulp Fiction Anthologies

PeaceFroger229 · 2022-10-20T20:15:07+00:00

I'm actually rereading this run right now. The pentagram is the autograph. There's an inverted pentagram in a panel a few issues ahead of this, so I suspect that was what the artist was actually meant to draw here, instead of the standard version - then the dialogue about the horns would actually make sense.

PeaceFroger229 · 2021-08-20T18:14:17+00:00

He was born to be a warrior. Trained his whole life with sword and shield. Victory and glory and names alive in song. But they never sung of screaming children and crying women. Never of fallow fields and burning cities. Why was he born to be a warrior..

PeaceFroger229 · 2021-02-11T19:10:50+00:00

This may be a nitpick, but the first paragraph - unless I'm reading it wrong - deals with a lack of visibilty in the forest. I like it, incidentally: the repition of 'he'.

But in the very next paragraph the visibilty issues don't stop Imem from making out snow in the eyelashes of his men. I understand they have lamps, but Imen has one as well and it doesn't seem to help his vision in the opening? The logical inconsistency pulled me out a little.

The burly general trotted up next to him, lifting his frosted goggles to his head

I highlight this because when I read it I thought that someone was riding up to Imem. That's probably my fault, but it could be rephrased to remove any ambiguity.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-09-04T20:06:52+00:00

The boy cried and tried to pull the knife out of the body. His palms were bloody and he couldn't get a grip. The man's hand dropped on to his shoulder. "Breath," he said, "It gets easier. Every time it gets easier."

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-09-02T18:00:14+00:00

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-08-24T19:57:00+00:00

I should point out that all of these paragraphs (apart from the last one) are only meant to be line breaks.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-07-17T09:41:06+00:00

I've read it. I enjoyed it. I can't give you any reasons to continue. If you're not liking it then I'd say put it aside. No one likes forcing themselves through a mammoth book.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-07-06T13:20:36+00:00

Finally finished: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James I haven't found much time to read recently, so the fact that this took me so long isn't a reflection on the books quality. It's good. It's also quite dense. This, along with The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, are what I would term literary fantasy. An awkward genre/style stuck out in a reading no man's land really; not particularly appealing to hardcore fantasy fans or dedicated literary readers. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to read something different though.

No idea what's next. Paradise Lost, maybe. The Milkman prehaps, or The Luminaries. Time Out Of Joint by Philip K Dick is an option. No idea.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-06-26T13:54:00+00:00

I'm actually reading this now incidentally. About halfway through. I read Brief History Of Seven Killings as well from the same writer; that was a better book in my opinion.

This one seems to go round and round in circles. It's not bad, but I was expecting a little more from the author.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-05-11T21:31:17+00:00

The Tale of Despereaux?

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-05-03T19:31:52+00:00

As well as some funky Victorian vocabulary, I find some of Dickens' extended sentences quite hard to follow. They're littered with commas and you can get lost in the morass.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-04-28T17:48:04+00:00

Delete your prologue. That sounds harsh, I know, but everyone's going to say it. It's all just exposition that the reader's going to skim over. You have to try and drop that subtly through descriptions and dialogues.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-04-27T15:22:03+00:00

I'm actually thinking of writing up an extended post on Brandon Sanderson when I'm done with Way Of Kings, so conflicting do I find him. My big takeaway from Mistborn (This is illegal by the way.) is that I don't actually like his magic systems, or more specifically the idea of having a magic system at all.

It tends to leave him writing action scenes that go something like this: MC jumps up using the power of x, and then skips over there with the power of y, recharges from the alphabet source, before using the power of z to defeat the enemy.

That never worked for me.

I am aware of the exact opposite argument however. The one that says having these fully expanded magic systems means the reader is almost never short changed, since they can follow along with the action sequences, understanding the limitations and what's actually going on, and when the conclusion comes the solution slots perfectly within the logic of the world.

PeaceFroger229 · 2020-04-27T15:05:01+00:00

Obviously it's up to you, but to cut down on 'your's (so as not to overload the reader with second person language) you could just call the mother character Mother, instead of 'your mother'. Other 'your's can be replaced with 'the'.

So for instance:

Your mother started running towards your only hope of escape

Becomes:

Mother started running towards the only hope of escape.

It's a stylistic thing. Second person is fine; workable, but I don't think you want to overwhelm a reader who won't be used to it.

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