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Aug. 2nd, 2012 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday marks the second time I have given up on a book solely due to the author's quirky grammatical choices.
The first one was The Road because, I'm sorry, I cannot deal with the lack of quotation marks. Today's book is Finch by John VanderMeer which I really want to like. It is a murder mystery set in a city that has been taken over by mushroom people. Mushroom people! That is amazing and wonderful. Alas, Mr VanderMeer apparently believes that if you have 5 sentences, at least four of them should be sentence fragments. I don't know, guys, I like verbs. Reading 8 sentence fragments in a row makes me feel like I'm reading some kind of bad poem, not narrative prose. I made halfway though chapter 2 and gave up.
I don't suppose any of you can think of any other books with mushroom people, can you?
The first one was The Road because, I'm sorry, I cannot deal with the lack of quotation marks. Today's book is Finch by John VanderMeer which I really want to like. It is a murder mystery set in a city that has been taken over by mushroom people. Mushroom people! That is amazing and wonderful. Alas, Mr VanderMeer apparently believes that if you have 5 sentences, at least four of them should be sentence fragments. I don't know, guys, I like verbs. Reading 8 sentence fragments in a row makes me feel like I'm reading some kind of bad poem, not narrative prose. I made halfway though chapter 2 and gave up.
I don't suppose any of you can think of any other books with mushroom people, can you?
