onefinemess | November 26, 2009
by: Tony Ballantyne I’m pretty sure it’s the idea that sold this book. It’s a good one, and I suspect the writer is either a computer programmer, or read up a lot on how to sound like one. It’s believable enough, but at times it seemed a bit forced. The writing is serviceable, but not [...]
onefinemess | November 19, 2009
tiny dark haired girls, swimming in your underwear the sun won’t set so soon tiny dark haired girls, swimming in shirts much too long shadows flicker across your face, the wrinkles come so soon.
onefinemess | November 18, 2009
Kinda rushed, not worth much more. Track by track with poor capitalization & punctuation because much of it was done one handed while holding a child, then a summary: Arrow – pop gem potential, fucked up by artsy clanky experimentalism. Hear that mechanical clanky distortion at the beginning? That’s a sign of the worst of [...]
onefinemess | November 17, 2009
Currently reading: Recursion by Tony Ballantyne. I forget how I found this, suggested by people who liked something or other, somewhere webmagical maybe? It’s decent so far although there is a glaring typo on the first page. Second paragraph. Wow, really?? Unless … in British English does “prize” mean the same thing as “pry”? “Now [...]
onefinemess | November 11, 2009
Finished! At 63ish K words. And I hate it now. It is, as Anne Lamott would say, a “shitty first draft” – which is OK. The problem is that at this point it’s also a shitty book. There are bits I like but I just don’t know…I was hoping the rest of the series would [...]
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