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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's simple and didactic -- she bludgeons you with her points, always telling and never showing.
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Exactly. Balancing the showing and telling is tough. She's an essayist masquerading as a novelist.
It also speaks a lot about her intelligence that she couldn't make her point without swinging a fifty pound hammer onto people's heads. The ability to let a reader fill in the blanks is, IMO, a mark of smart writer.
But then, she wasn't stupid. Her concepts are dense and well considered. Maybe she was emotionally retarded.
Maybe? Jesus. Did I say that? Of course she was.
