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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Luciano is actually on to something. A book can be dense and rich.
But a book can also be dense and not rich. Or dense and trying to be rich, but plodding in the effort.
For this book to be successful, it needs to be written like a thriller where the reader gains historical knowledge by accident. Because it is not Ondaatje and really can't be. It needs to move, move, move.
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I've cut 4,000 words. The first chapter received a lot of work.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
—Paul Auster
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