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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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I agree with most of this, although I find the worlds she creates entertaining and her philosophy interesting. Her writing style is nothing special.
But don't you think it would be difficult for her to "show" the points she is trying to make? As I see it, those point pretty much require the "tell." I view her as a philoshoper masquerading as a novelist.
