"The Sweet Forever" George P. Pelecanos. $23.95 retail US,
Amazon.com
$16.77, Dalton Bookseller $21.56 (what I paid).
RS is 740 pages while TSF is 298 ... based on the cheapest
price, that's
$.02 per page for RS and $.06 per page for TSF.>>
If Pelecanos's book sold for $1000 and Clancy's for $1.99,
Pelecanos
would still be a bargain in comparison. Bad writing is worth
nothing.
In artistic matters, I have always associated greatness with
the ability
to condense - which is why I consider Beethoven an
immeasurably greater
composer than, say, Mahler. The other day I was reading
Chandler's story
_Trouble is my business_, and what struck me, besides
Chandler's
legendary way with words, was how economical the development
was. No
doubt one could take this story and write 300 pages, but
why?
<<I'd rather pick up a tome of short stories vice
one
little thin book ... just think of the bigger book as a form
of exercise
... ;)>>
This statement amazes and dumbfounds. Exercise? Like lifting
weights?
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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