It took me two tries to get through the prologue and first chapter of The Broken Crown. That's a level of effort I've only ever really made for one other book (Brideshead Revisited), and I found your book the more rewarding experience (in Waugh's defense, that is not his best book).
There are only a few other writers who have evoked the level of euphoria/commitment to their work - which, I think, is the great value of being a writer with real definition of subject. The downside, as you write about in this post, is that you are less likely ... to be read. Which, by the way, is frustrating for readers because it makes conversation about something I love very difficult to come by! So, I feel your pain, is what I'm saying. I feel it through several prescription painkillers, but still. It's there.
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Date: 2009-04-22 12:29 am (UTC)There are only a few other writers who have evoked the level of euphoria/commitment to their work - which, I think, is the great value of being a writer with real definition of subject. The downside, as you write about in this post, is that you are less likely ... to be read. Which, by the way, is frustrating for readers because it makes conversation about something I love very difficult to come by! So, I feel your pain, is what I'm saying. I feel it through several prescription painkillers, but still. It's there.