Re: Further Reading
Posted by:
Gavin Smith (IP Logged)
Date: 18 April, 2002 04:51PM
Hey ho, mi amici! I happen to have 4 copies on hand right now of the Wildside trade paperback of Throne of Bones by McNaughton ($16.95) which are all just meeping with anticipation of meeting their new owners. To adopt one of them, do drop me a note. PayPal accepted with my e-mail address, checks and money orders welcome. $2.00 post.
Gavin Smith
3408 Pleasant Run Road
Irving, Texas 75062-3255
My own take on the Joshi quote, the only thing boneheaded about it is the way Joshi (apparently) leaves it to our imaginations as to how he means that McNaughton is a "better" prose writer than CASmith. My own intuition here is that he may mean that, if all you want is a good prose writer, CASmith being ever so much more than just that (if that), many writers are clearly "better", but to what end? Let's not forget how hard it is to read Smith. But it is worth the effort. If all you want is a competent writer with a clear style, Smith is obviously flawed. From that angle, many writers are "better".
Think about who we are talking about here: does anyone thing that Joshi does not "get" Smith? This is not a head-scratcher, folks.