“Blasphemous geometries” ahoy !
“Blasphemous geometries” ahoy !
His prose tends to be a shade too pompous for my taste.
One of the more annoying tics of 18th-century prose is the habit of referring to people as “the [adjective] So-and-So”, instead of referring simply to “So-and-So”.
So many of these !
Non-Euclidian geometries
Blasphemous
Cyclopean
Snape’s hair is usually described as “greasy”, “like curtains”.
And there is Draco Malfoy’s “pale, pointed face”.
And Hermione’s “bushy brown hair”.
And Dumbledore’s “half-moon spectacles”.
That might work in a period novel, perhaps; in one set in the 1890s perhaps.
J K Rowling is very fond of “zoom” and variants, in the Harry Potter books. And there is a lot of “beaming” and “roaring” as well.
What `i mean is, that I have begun the chapter, and not finished it.
I suspect that is what most people would mean.
When I read it, I thought Heathcliff was extremely unlikeable, & not remotely “romantic”.
Most of the characters are paper-thin.
I am probably not in the intended readership.
I’m reading a gay romcom called “Boyfriend Material”.
It hasn’t got me a boyfriend. Or changed anything else. So far only one of the two main characters has appeared, and he has lost his job, for bringing the charity he worked for into disrepute by going on a bender - which gets into the news because his father is a celebrity - thereby losing the charity donors. He’s rather hopeless, and so, thus far, are his friends. He has met his suggested BF once, & is not keen on meeting him again.
I do not know anyone like that, and it would never occur to me to angle for a BF by using a romcom as a “how to” guide. There may be a romcom that doubles as a Wikihow Guide to a Gay Relationship - but I’ve not heard of it.
Are you thinking of ASOIAF, which GRRM seems to have given up on ?
This could almost be a description of a very great number of Harry Potter fan fics.