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ivyficI am halfway through reading a romance novel where I had a sneaking suspicion that the main character was based on Wilfred Owen. Then about two hundred pages in--oh, yeah, it's Wilfred Owen, only my favorite poet of all time. One slight difference though--Wilfred Owen was gay. So probably would not be madly in love with the naive 25-year-old Mary Sue..
I want so much to like it, but it's having a bit of first book-itis--plots disappearing for hundreds of pages while the characters say gooey things to each other. And there's the small problem of there being a few references to a scene that isn't there. It must have been excised from an earlier draft--probably in first pass, or I'd hope either the copyeditor or proofreader would have caught it.
I will keep going because it is fluffy and entertaining, but this could have been a book that just hit all my buttons and it's...not.
I want so much to like it, but it's having a bit of first book-itis--plots disappearing for hundreds of pages while the characters say gooey things to each other. And there's the small problem of there being a few references to a scene that isn't there. It must have been excised from an earlier draft--probably in first pass, or I'd hope either the copyeditor or proofreader would have caught it.
I will keep going because it is fluffy and entertaining, but this could have been a book that just hit all my buttons and it's...not.
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Date: 2012-11-26 09:22 pm (UTC)This is great: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/owen although you need to search the whole collection sometimes to find gems like Who is the God of Canongate. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5189?REC=2 I suspect the autor of your book wouldn't have liked him writing about rent boys.