if everyone spent 20 minutes reciting their ancestry when being introduced, I believe we'd have more homicides.
That line was so good Dan I was gonna give ya experience points. But alas, according to the site, I've spared you too many already. But ya made me laugh.
But what I meant in this case was that they were more like real life in that totally unexpected things come up out of the blue, and often the characters are obviously not involved in formulaic plot contrivances, but in things they had in no way expected or anticipated. That is in events that did not advance the plot at all but that told you a lot about how life is often filled with the totally unexpected, even the weird, the bizarre, and the disturbing.
I think there are far too many writers out there who aren't true writers. They slam out page after page but none of it is really art. Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, these people wrote poetry on the page, not just a spewed bunch of words. In this day and age, anyone with enough will can pump out a novel and call themselves a writer, but it takes genuine skill and a mastery of ones craft to be an artist.
I'll sure agree with ya there. Not always but often enough Martin is a superb writer. He's way ahead of most modern fantasy writers, but in some respects he's way ahead of most modern writers.
Now for something completely different. As much as I like to read Robert Parker, and the cases he writes about, and as good and Hemingwayesque as his writing is, if any Dick or Policemen shot as many people as the characters in his books do, then they'd either be dead or in jail. He was a superb writer I thought, but his characters shot an awful lot of people without anyone ever really coming down on em. You might could get away with that in Rwanada, but you couldn't in Boston, or in Paradise. So that bothers me.
And one last thing. Batman,
kill the Joker and Black Mask. Superman,
kill Lex Luthor and Darkseid. Spiderman,
kill the Kingpin and Green Goblin. They aren't just criminals, they are mass murderers and serial killers and terrorists. You say you wanna protect and defend the innocent? No you don't. Or you'd kill the men who make a practice of repeatedly and unrepentantly murdering the innocent.
Every innocent some idiot butcher slaughtered because you lacked the guts to kill them (especially after it became blatantly obvious they kill and destroy habitually), well, that blood sits at your feet.
Sure it's just comic books, but it churns my guts that comic book writers and comic book superheroes care more about the lives of a Joker than they do about the lives of the past, present, and future victims of a Joker or some other "super-criminal."
No "super-criminal" (what an oxymoron) is worth anywhere near his own weight in innocent blood and homemade gunpowder. So whack em already and save everybody else from having to dig more mass graves. Just the one will do.