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I'm not so sure about that... (Reply to this comment)
by mysteryme
Sorry, But I have to say that I disagree with your comments about the beginning being to long and the over doing it on pollution. Yes, when I first wrote my review, I said the same thing about the beginning. But, since I read it over 10 years ago, I thought I'd read it again. And I now disagree. I dunno, maybe I matured and my tastes changed... The story was simple, yet complicated-therefore needing a lengthy explanation. Also, face it. If you really could travel to another world like ours without ANY of the pollution...what do you think the air would smell like?? And I also don't think that was the entire point. The milk tasted different over there also, but they were not indicating that are cows are polluted.
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Oct 03 '01
12:32 pm PDT
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Re: Pollution+is+a+.+.+.+ (Reply to this comment)
by owling
I wouldn't even have minded it if it had been a subtle, allegorical kind of thing. It was the heavy-handedness of it all. Argh.
Thank you for the kind words!
heather
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Sep 03 '01
3:42 am PDT
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Pollution is a . . . (Reply to this comment)
by gungian
. . . significant problem.
I just don't need 735 pages to tell me that.
Nice posting.
Write On!
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Sep 02 '01
9:03 pm PDT
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Re: Pollution+bad! (Reply to this comment)
by owling
I did think the book was a lot of fun; it was pretty engrossing after those 142 pages. But yeah, the overwhelming message was obnoxious now and then. Luckily it wasn't constant!
I always think it's kind of weird when I see big-name writers making mistakes that I mostly see in writing classes. I really do wonder if there comes a point when writers' editors decide they can't risk alienating the big-name writers by truthfully editing them.
heather
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Sep 02 '01
2:23 am PDT
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Pollution bad! (Reply to this comment)
by arianej
*wince* I'm very, very wary of social messages hidden in fiction... Many authors just don't handle it skillfully enough so that it gets the message across without sounding...well...ridiculously moral. I haven't read _The Talisman_, not sure if I really want to... It seems like the longer any SK work is, the more weak-portions there'll be.
arianej
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Sep 01 '01
9:11 pm PDT
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Re: Agreed (Reply to this comment)
by owling
I don't know; I didn't really have a problem with the ending. I enjoyed it. Everybody's a bit different, though. :)
heather
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Sep 01 '01
11:31 am PDT
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Agreed (Reply to this comment)
by Rocketgirl
I also seem to recall that the ending was very anti-climactic...you know the story ends, then there's 50 more pages of junk. And of course the ending itself--won't reveal it for those who haven't read it, but makes the whole journey seem pointless.
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Sep 01 '01
11:07 am PDT
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