Doctorow is always challenging (for me). It took me forever to get through Ragtime. In that book some of the challenge was worth it (added to the story) some of it felt unnecessary and that makes me want to smack him (Doctorow).
I had The March on my To Read List when I read a very negative review of it that made me think "bleh" and move it way down on the list --so I'm interested in what you think.
About the split narrative (re:F.S.M.), I can't think of a good example (but there must be some)I agree with you that the portrait thing would get boring--but I was thinking (rough preliminary think) that maybe an object or a symbol from the previous chapter narrated by that character would identify each in the following chapter narrated by them and would change (from chapter to chapter) so not get dull-- but that assumes the reader will remember the object or symbol in relation to that character ...would they? Does anything I just said make any sense --I'm honestly not sure ...ha.
We're supposed to get snow here tonight or tomorrow--it's being deceptively periwinkle but the temperature's dropping so we actually MIGHT.
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Date: 2006-02-15 07:22 pm (UTC)I had The March on my To Read List when I read a very negative review of it that made me think "bleh" and move it way down on the list --so I'm interested in what you think.
About the split narrative (re:F.S.M.), I can't think of a good example (but there must be some)I agree with you that the portrait thing would get boring--but I was thinking (rough preliminary think) that maybe an object or a symbol from the previous chapter narrated by that character would identify each in the following chapter narrated by them and would change (from chapter to chapter) so not get dull-- but that assumes the reader will remember the object or symbol in relation to that character ...would they? Does anything I just said make any sense --I'm honestly not sure ...ha.
We're supposed to get snow here tonight or tomorrow--it's being deceptively periwinkle but the temperature's dropping so we actually MIGHT.
Gads! yak yak yak --I'm shutting up. I'm going now.