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Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton  Harrison's own "world-building" in the Virconium books, which are the only things of his that I have read, can be very detailed and quite fascinating -- even masterful -- but it does not hang together in any logical way; it's all a sort of magnificent muddle. Going by these remarks, he would seem to consider any attempt at inner-consistency to be inartistic. This explains a lot. |
I stand by my earlier comment about not liking page upon page of peripheral description. I would like to add, though, that I can, if I have to, skip info dumps; I am only annoyed if I miss some key part of the plot by doing so.
Crass illogicality, however, simply kills my suspension of disbelief. I start to think that the writer couldn't be bothered to do their groundwork. I begin to doubt that they're up to the job in other areas of the text. It smacks of rank amateurism, an aspect of an expensively bought book that can irritate me to the extent that I feel conned. To sum up, illogicality can ruin a book for me.
Perhaps I won't bother to read Mr. Harrison's apparently shoddy work; he seems to be in no hurry to correct any errors he has made in this aspect of his work.