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kestrellVictor LaValle spoke at last year's Shirley Jackson Awards--he is a really lovely speaker, and I'm wildly anticipating his new book which comes out in August.
I'm posting his review of _The Technologist_ because it will spare me the pain of actually finishing this book. Teh story focuses on the first graduating class of MIT who are attempting to solve a series of technological disasters.It has MIT students, technology, and a mystery, yet the text manages to be dry as dust and twice as annoying. The main characters, both heroes and villains, are complete cardboard, while the prose is tortuously banal. If you are a reader who doesn't care about the quality of the prose, this book will probably go more smoothly for you; for me, however, prose is like the lighting you use for a painting: it either illuminates the image or it renders it as mud.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-technologists-by-matthew-pearl/2012/02/06/gIQAbtwNlR_story.html
I'm posting his review of _The Technologist_ because it will spare me the pain of actually finishing this book. Teh story focuses on the first graduating class of MIT who are attempting to solve a series of technological disasters.It has MIT students, technology, and a mystery, yet the text manages to be dry as dust and twice as annoying. The main characters, both heroes and villains, are complete cardboard, while the prose is tortuously banal. If you are a reader who doesn't care about the quality of the prose, this book will probably go more smoothly for you; for me, however, prose is like the lighting you use for a painting: it either illuminates the image or it renders it as mud.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-technologists-by-matthew-pearl/2012/02/06/gIQAbtwNlR_story.html
