Sunday, October 19, 2008

Hooray for both ...

... Realism, and Blood in Books.

Nigel is right about Ian McEwan. Saturday was also neat, tidy - and utterly contrived. I think what tends to be overlooked is that good plotting is hard. If you want to see what a really good plot looks like, though, you can do no better than to read Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers.

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