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an evil petting zoo?
Sep. 3rd, 2002 11:26 amSo while trying to come down this weekend, I read Ishmael. I'd heard about this book about a year ago or so, from a LJ friend at the time. Apparently the book Changed His Life forever or something.
So it's sort of told in a Socratic dialogue with an ape instructing a man (because of course only animals could perceive this Ultimate Truth) in how people are destroying the earth. I kind of like this style, actually, because it actually tells you what the author is trying to get across, instead of demonstrating it. If you're gonna write a didactic novel, I mean, you may as well just talk instead of pretending to get a plot across. I wish Ayn Rand had done that instead; would have cut her books in third.
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So it's sort of told in a Socratic dialogue with an ape instructing a man (because of course only animals could perceive this Ultimate Truth) in how people are destroying the earth. I kind of like this style, actually, because it actually tells you what the author is trying to get across, instead of demonstrating it. If you're gonna write a didactic novel, I mean, you may as well just talk instead of pretending to get a plot across. I wish Ayn Rand had done that instead; would have cut her books in third.
( Spoilers )
