conputer dipshitJan 6, 2023
someone please recommend a very short novel with prose so good it’ll make me sick. just read an acclaimed Hugo-winning work of #scifi and it was... real bad #books
Show threadMatildaJan 6, 2023
@davidcrespo @nlowell #Bookstodon any good recommendations for the above? @bookstodon
Show threadNathan Lowell (he/him) 📎

@owlislost @davidcrespo @bookstodon

I've got a lot of great *stories* I could recommend, but great *prose*?

Not so much.

Not that I haven't read any. I probably have. It's just that IDGAF about the prose itself.

For me, good prose can't save a bad story and bad prose can't sink a great one.

JMO. YMMV.

Jan 6, 2023 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadNathan Lowell (he/him) 📎Jan 6, 2023

@owlislost @davidcrespo @bookstodon

Although I'm forced to admit that really bad prose can make a great story unrecognizable.

I tend not to get past the samples on those so I never find out. 🤪