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05-21-2004, 02:24 PM | #1 |
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Are modern writers too "Curt"?
In alot of the new fiction of these days...namely Crichton and Grisham, they are quite lazy when they form sentences.
for example.... here is a sample of "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky, and following will be a sample from Grisham's "The Client" "With the greatest pleasure. On arriving here and determining on a certain...journey, I should like to make some necessary preliminary investigations. I left my children with an aunt......." and it goes on... but here, Roy stood slowly and stared at McThune. and all throughout the book, the sentences are usuallyshort and curt. the dialogue as well. It seems that these modern day authors arent really trying hard to write. Lazy. Like me. huh.
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