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Originally Posted by queentess
Yeah, I hear it gets really good, but I'm still stuck in the "he's so superior, let's list all the ways" mode of the book. And bored with John's dialog. Perhaps it's my age or my inability to deal with pretentious dialog.
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<Shrug> That's Stapledon's style. If you don't care for it, you won't like any of his stuff. Nothing wrong with that, to each his own. Since Ahi stated he liked Stapledon's style, I was just mentioning that Odd John was a good book of the author's style.
For an example, I like James Branch Cabell. But his writing style is so fancy that 9 out of 10 readers today would just bounce trying to read him. At that, I've tried reading another writer of the era (Java Head, 1919, by Joseph Hergesheim) and gave up after 10 pages. He'd spend 10 pages doing nothing but describing a room. And Java Head was considered a masterpiece at the time....