MerrickFM
MerrickFM t1_ixer9kt wrote
Reply to comment by Extension_Virus_835 in When is the authors POV too much? by Extension_Virus_835
> "real fiction authors used to write without inserting their opinions on every page"
Tell me you never developed critical literacy skills without telling me you never developed critical literacy skills.
MerrickFM t1_ita2r4w wrote
Reply to So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
Bram Stoker thought he could write natural-sounding dialogue for a character who spoke broken English as a second language.
He miscalculated to an astonishing degree.
MerrickFM t1_j7vbcl6 wrote
Reply to comment by TugboatThomas in Why do some books blank out arbitrary place names? by PangeanPrawn
Let me ask you a question: why would a gentleman whose cigarillo case is inscribed "Genius at Work" spend all his time reading a frivolous work of prose fiction?