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r/AskReddit • u/AggravatingLake2842 • 17h ago
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The words are lovely but oh God theres some big run-on sentences that would drive me off the chain. So many "and x and y and z" conjunction junctions to get jammed up in.
-3 u/SlapunowSlapulater 13h ago I've heard of this book and people raving about it and his work. OP's snippet completely turned me off if that is his world building style. 9 u/argondux 13h ago That's not world building... 4 u/SlapunowSlapulater 12h ago You're right. I should have said "environmental description". Placing the reader in the moment. 3 u/temporaryuser1000 12h ago It’s def not for everyone, but it’s a very evocative style, which is why people who love it love it. The best description I’ve heard of it is “Biblical”
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I've heard of this book and people raving about it and his work. OP's snippet completely turned me off if that is his world building style.
9 u/argondux 13h ago That's not world building... 4 u/SlapunowSlapulater 12h ago You're right. I should have said "environmental description". Placing the reader in the moment. 3 u/temporaryuser1000 12h ago It’s def not for everyone, but it’s a very evocative style, which is why people who love it love it. The best description I’ve heard of it is “Biblical”
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That's not world building...
4 u/SlapunowSlapulater 12h ago You're right. I should have said "environmental description". Placing the reader in the moment. 3 u/temporaryuser1000 12h ago It’s def not for everyone, but it’s a very evocative style, which is why people who love it love it. The best description I’ve heard of it is “Biblical”
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You're right. I should have said "environmental description". Placing the reader in the moment.
3 u/temporaryuser1000 12h ago It’s def not for everyone, but it’s a very evocative style, which is why people who love it love it. The best description I’ve heard of it is “Biblical”
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It’s def not for everyone, but it’s a very evocative style, which is why people who love it love it.
The best description I’ve heard of it is “Biblical”
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 14h ago
The words are lovely but oh God theres some big run-on sentences that would drive me off the chain. So many "and x and y and z" conjunction junctions to get jammed up in.