tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post5547254580565531876..comments2023-10-21T06:47:36.819-07:00Comments on p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: "The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post-33936705642406428092007-11-28T16:38:00.000-08:002007-11-28T16:38:00.000-08:00Despite a lot of current trending, brevity is a vi...Despite a lot of current trending, brevity is a virtue as is compact efficient language. Frankly, the need to go 1000 pages to tell a single story is more a mark of incompetence in character developement and description. As a reader I expect to be involved in the process, not spoon-fed.<BR/><BR/>As an example, Michner's "Tales From the South Pacific" ranks high on my all time greats, the rest of his stuff is just annoying to me.Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.com