Someone who's characters are plot devices, so the books are neat, understandable, clinical, and utterly organized.
You now, I can see where this could be interpretted as an insult, but when you get right down to it, LKH is really just shooting herself in the foot.
Characters are plot devices, when you get down to it. The most realistic and utterly human of characters in any book is still a plot device. Their sole raison d'être is to forward the plot of the book. Without the plot, they would not exist.
And which would you rather read - an understandable, clinical, and utterly organized book (i.e. one that makes sense, keeping in mind that just because it's "clinical" doesn't also mean that it won't still be packed with human emotion), or a barely parsable, blatantly self-anachronistic string of purple text (i.e. the entirety of LKH's recent works)?
I have a really hard time being insulted by this rant she's written, because it is so hilariously whacked. This is the most blatant and shining example of her batshit insanity that I've come across yet, and it is like the oft-abused poisoned candy on my tongue - only I built up an immunity to her delicious, delicious poison long ago.
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Date: 2006-12-31 06:54 pm (UTC)You now, I can see where this could be interpretted as an insult, but when you get right down to it, LKH is really just shooting herself in the foot.
Characters are plot devices, when you get down to it. The most realistic and utterly human of characters in any book is still a plot device. Their sole raison d'être is to forward the plot of the book. Without the plot, they would not exist.
And which would you rather read - an understandable, clinical, and utterly organized book (i.e. one that makes sense, keeping in mind that just because it's "clinical" doesn't also mean that it won't still be packed with human emotion), or a barely parsable, blatantly self-anachronistic string of purple text (i.e. the entirety of LKH's recent works)?
I have a really hard time being insulted by this rant she's written, because it is so hilariously whacked. This is the most blatant and shining example of her batshit insanity that I've come across yet, and it is like the oft-abused poisoned candy on my tongue - only I built up an immunity to her delicious, delicious poison long ago.