So, once again, I find a novelist who cant muster enough self-discipline to meet minimum storytelling standards. Not only does Brad Meltzer switch back and forth between third and first person narrative voices, in The Fifth Assassin, at the same time he changes tenses. (By the way, the paragraph I just read, put John Wilkes Booths entry into the Ford Theater around year 1820. Just sloppy, man -- youre writing a novel that relies on historical detail, come on!) Its like reading the story through a kaleidoscope. So, that puts him, Andrew Gross and James Patterson on the dont-check-them-out of the library list. Isnt there a truth in novel publishing clause somewhere?? This kind of totally unnecessary razzle-dazzle seems epidemic now. Maybe there should be a seal, a certifying body, something like: Meets minimum standards of fiction style. Proofread and edited by actual humans. I despair.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:12:22 +0000
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