the yankees! oy.
i totally agree with you on 'sherlock'. i'm not sure about the blanket statement that fiction is supposed to be more logical than life, though. of course, if it's what you want your fiction, read and/or written, to be, there can be no argument.
but if you're saying all fiction should be that way and is a failure if it's not, then i'm afraid i'm going to ask you to step outside.
--- On Thu, 11/4/10, Jack Bludis <buildsnburns@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Jack Bludis <buildsnburns@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: "The Long Goodbye" -- More heresy
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010, 9:24 AM
> Patrick King made many good points,
> but he hit on one of my problems with the novel when he
> said:
>
> >> I found Chandler's book thoroughly entertaining
> but no more logical than the way things happen in real life.
> <<
>
> Exactly, "no more logical than the way things happen in
> real life." Fiction is *supposed to be more logical than
> real life. (I also did not find my entertainment with either
> the book or the movie *thoroughly* entertaining.)
>
> I have to save that description for the first episode of
> the new "Sherlock." The second episode? Not as
> entertaining.
>
> I won't defend my position to the death. After all, it's
> not an opinion about politics, religion, the Yankees, or
> Notre Dame--although Notre Dame is getting much harder to
> defend.
>
> Opinion, always.
>
> Jack Bludis
>
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