I should probably be more specific than "strange," because I've read and enjoyed plenty of things that were "strange."
In the specific case of Moonwise, I had a very difficult time getting past the writing style. Specifically, the habit of strewing about sentence fragments ("Moonwise. Dark of Moon.")drove me up the wall-- it kept interrupting the narrative's attempts to develop some sort of flow. It didn't help that I was trying to read it in bits and pieces while commuting in Japan, but I got something like halfway through, realized I had no idea what was going on, and didn't much care, and moved on to something else for bus/train reading.
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Re: Alexei Panshin and other forerunners
Date: 2003-07-20 07:02 am (UTC)In the specific case of Moonwise, I had a very difficult time getting past the writing style. Specifically, the habit of strewing about sentence fragments ("Moonwise. Dark of Moon.")drove me up the wall-- it kept interrupting the narrative's attempts to develop some sort of flow. It didn't help that I was trying to read it in bits and pieces while commuting in Japan, but I got something like halfway through, realized I had no idea what was going on, and didn't much care, and moved on to something else for bus/train reading.