Boy, you seem to draw a lot of clinkers! Too bad about the impenetrability of the first one; the plot summary sounded interesting. The second one... well, you've already heard my opinion of true-crime stories.
The plot could have been interesting - in the hands of someone who was writing for a slightly larger market. As it was... (and it's not in the review, but I was FURIOUS when the feminist's daughter blew her mother off as "one of those people who needs a man in her life." Throughout the book, the attitude towards feminists was patronizing at best, and not just from the murder victim.)
Animadversions, villanelle , avoirdupois, risible?! I admit to only having the slightest clue thanks to latin and french roots , whatever they are you can apparently shop for them on the first link listed here -=Jeff=-
A villanelle is a traditional poetic form, marked by the recurrence of two rhyming lines A1 and A2 in 3-line stanzas, so that the format is:
A1-b-A2
a-b-A1
a-b-A2
a-b-A1
a-b-A2
a-b-A1-A2
Yes, the last stanza has 4 lines. These things are an absolute bitch to write well; sonnets are as easy as breathing by comparison. I've written two, and may never write another.
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Date: 2005-02-14 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-15 02:38 am (UTC)I admit to only having the slightest clue thanks to latin and french roots , whatever they are you can apparently shop for them on the first link listed here
-=Jeff=-
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Date: 2005-02-15 05:36 am (UTC)A1-b-A2
a-b-A1
a-b-A2
a-b-A1
a-b-A2
a-b-A1-A2
Yes, the last stanza has 4 lines. These things are an absolute bitch to write well; sonnets are as easy as breathing by comparison. I've written two, and may never write another.
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Date: 2005-02-15 01:32 pm (UTC)