The writing has that lucid, pane-of-freshly-scrubbed-glass quality, if you know what I mean. It's not that this book is sympathetic to each conflicting point-of-view. It bypasses that to something more straightfaced and real and tangled. Sort of lifting the knot of people and squinting at it from every direction, watching it go, recording the data. One of the better executions of omniscient writing on a technical level I've seen in a long time.
Wow! A shame this happened to be about characters one couldn't really get invested in, it sounds like :P
I do love that kind of utter clarity in writing though. Ursula LeGuin hits that a big proportion of the time - amazingly even when writing from a specific POV....which is one of the many things that makes me worship her adore her writing so :) For a writer to somehow put across a wholeness of vision, no matter what it is they might happen to be envisioning....that's a rare gift. And one that thrills me no end when I find it :)
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Date: 2012-03-20 03:17 pm (UTC)Wow! A shame this happened to be about characters one couldn't really get invested in, it sounds like :P
I do love that kind of utter clarity in writing though. Ursula LeGuin hits that a big proportion of the time - amazingly even when writing from a specific POV....which is one of the many things that makes me
worship heradore her writing so :) For a writer to somehow put across a wholeness of vision, no matter what it is they might happen to be envisioning....that's a rare gift. And one that thrills me no end when I find it :)