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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
Is a good story ever "just" a good story? Surely there are reasons for its quality...
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One of the things I noticed with the book is that I found it quite cinematic.
By that I mean that with some books one just reads the words and follow the story and it is enjoyable because of the prose and storyline, or even because the propaganda in it is also relevant.
With others, some or all of those things may be present but one can also, if so inclined, create and "watch" a movie in ones head as the story is read.
I found that so with
Chronicles, right from the start from the descriptions in the narration in the first story
Rocket Summer, even though with that first story there was no real inkling as to what the rest of the book was to be about. Helped in that first at least, I think, by short sentences or short tight phrases giving some sort of sharpness to it.