Reflections of a working writer and reader
The middlebrow or the upper Philistine cannot get rid of the furtive feeling that a book, to be great, must deal in great ideas. Oh, I know the type, the dreary type! He likes a good yarn spiced with social comment; he likes to recognize his own thoughts and throes in those of the author; he wants at least one of the characters to be the author's stooge. If American, he has a dash of Marxist blood, and if British, he is acutely and ridiculously class-conscious; he finds it so much easier to write about ideas than about words; he does not realize that perhaps the reason he does not find general ideas in a particular writer is that the particular ideas of that writer have not yet become general. Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Pundit has a reference to Donna Moore’s Bookshelf, which is well worth a visit. Donna likes mysteries and humour, has read a lot, and likes to talk about what she’s read and what she’s going to read next. Still with Literary Pundit: there’s a short sample passage from my novel, Winged with Death.
PS. You can read the opening chapter of Winged with Death by following this link.
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