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Originally Posted by ratinox
My opinion: If it's gratuitous then it does nothing to develop characters and nothing to advance the plot. It's dead weight. The existence of dead weight makes me question the competence of author and editor. Persistence across a larger body of work can cause me to drop an author from my reading list entirely.
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Tomato/tomato. George Romero's zombie movies are very violent. I suppose you could say they're gratuitously violent. But then that's George's ethos, man. I'd be hard pressed to say (the original) Dawn of the Dead should be skipped by any movie-lover because it is too violent.
I haven't read The Barrow yet, but this discussion has made me curious. I think I'll read it next. As someone more famous than me said: “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”