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Trab

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  1. "Literary elitism aside, Stephen King IS a good storyteller, that's why people buy his books, and why Hollywood makes movies of them." To extrapolate heedless of the validity of doing so, I would point out that Reality TV must be good television, since so many people watch it, and the industry keeps making them. :twisted: What I truly feel is that a master storyteller is someone who can make ANY situation into a story which is listened to or read by an enthralled audience. I know someone who can make an ORDINARY drive to a meeting seem like an adventure you would hate to have missed. But he cannot spell, seems unable to recognize grammar much less use it, and has difficulty in choosing the correct words to make a point. To him, paragraphs are more a geometric phenomenon to make the page look balanced than anything required by the story itself.
  2. "I used to drive my ..." This "used to" usage DRIVES ME NUTS. Another serious irritant is the TO/AND, as in, "He wanted to cut more wood, so he grabbed the axe and went and cut down the tree in the back yard." instead of "He wanted to cut more wood, so he grabbed the axe and went to cut down the tree in the back yard."
  3. I liked it, and I'll say it, despite the statement by 'Stout Scarab' that he doesn't care. I'm not fully sure (or even partially sure) that suppressing memories is the same as losing them in an accident, but that is something I did, for decades. When my barriers crumbled and I suddenly remembered everything, it was almost 'mind blowing'. It didn't come back slowly, but as an overwhelming rush, and strangely, intergrated almost immediately into the new 'me'. Although I have some slight regrets, mostly for time wasted, I don't berate myself, nor condemn myself for anything I did and/or did not do. Based on that personal perspective, I think that Trent would not have killed himself had he recovered his memories. On some primal level I think we can sense that we have no further control over the past and simply MUST move on, forgiving ourselves our past sins. The story was haunting, intriguing, and a testament to our human condition. Well done. :)
  4. Firstly, I am impoverished when it comes to literary talent. Downright destitute. I can use lots of nice words, most often correctly, but for the life of me I cannot put it into any form that gives pleasure to anyone reading it. I admire all the writers, but even moreso, the ones who are essentially writing 'underground' material. If you cannot get a national or international publisher to publish material which is of good to excellent calibre, then you are writing 'underground' (my opinion). This essentially means you volunteer your skill, imagination, and time to all those who read your works. Those readers may be ecstatic about your works, or otherwise, but under no circumstances are they justified in 'knocking' what you have done. In a very real sense, you are all like the painters of old, who became famous and treasured after their deaths. One can only hope that your personal drive, and an ever increasing awareness on the part of the general public will allow you to avoid that horrid scenario. One has to wonder if there is no way to create an actual publishing company which would print many of your works, and sell the books openly. Society is changing, and maybe things like the legalization of same sex marriage in Canada, Spain, Belguim and the Netherlands are a sign of better times. Sure, there will be anti 'anything' everywhere, for years to come, probably till the death of humanity itself, but the slow swing of the pendulum is towards more freedom in most places in the world, the USA being the sad exception. The terrorist seem to have won that battle, and terrified the government, if not the people themselves.
  5. More dramatic hiatus in the sense of, we can't be sure he'll outlive it?
  6. So Mr. Hiatus, just how old are you? :twisted: They are making it seem like you are 'over the hill'. :(
  7. A nice, short, enjoyable read, perfect for a good night's sleep. (I'm not saying it's boring, it is far from that, but that I was able to feel content after reading it, relax, and sleep well.) I hope nobody thinks this is a condemnation. Althogether too often people take my words the wrong way. 'Faint praise' and all that blah....
  8. I too must confess to writing that I didn't like the story. I praise your writing, and admire the writing of the story, but it is so very distrubing to me that I truly cannot say, "I like it." Thought provoking, emotionally devastating, horrifying, but definitely NOT likeable, Dog Boys is a story that needs to be out there, for all of us to become more aware. Thank you, sincerely.
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