Not mean-- not directed at her as a person at all, just a frank criticism of her writing. I'm rather certain you could have easily told her (not publicly, maybe, but told her nevertheless). And your words are echoing some of my own thoughts--
Herself is a great writer, no doubt about it; I have read everything up to Where They Take You In, with differing amounts of delight and intrigue, but, for all her writing skills, I have to agree with your findings that she uses certain repetitive patterns.
they belong to high tragedy; or, since their story ends reasonably well, to classical moral drama. They are deadly serious – in bliss and sorrow, in trouble and everyday life. Humour doesn’t exist in their universe.
Anna, this is brilliant: I had come to the same conclusion about the lack of humour, but you just add the systematic background.
Now, my Spike and Buffy make fun of each other – from School hard to Chosen and beyond, more over, they make fun of themselves. They mock and tease and laugh; they could be cruel and gently, and they changed. They are still changing.
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Herself is a great writer, no doubt about it; I have read everything up to Where They Take You In, with differing amounts of delight and intrigue, but, for all her writing skills, I have to agree with your findings that she uses certain repetitive patterns.
they belong to high tragedy; or, since their story ends reasonably well, to classical moral drama. They are deadly serious – in bliss and sorrow, in trouble and everyday life. Humour doesn’t exist in their universe.
Anna, this is brilliant: I had come to the same conclusion about the lack of humour, but you just add the systematic background.
Now, my Spike and Buffy make fun of each other – from School hard to Chosen and beyond, more over, they make fun of themselves. They mock and tease and laugh; they could be cruel and gently, and they changed. They are still changing.
Yes.