Originally Posted by Vivian
On the other hand, if the author has been unclear in her description, forcing you to struggle more than you should have to in order to get a picture of the scene and characters and what's going on, that's the author's failing. I find this with a lot of literary fiction. The author is too busy making everything sound poetic to be clear. This is something I find unbearable, and I wonder why literary fiction is supposed to be so great and a higher art form than genre fiction when most of it is so bad.
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