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Laurens Gunnarsen
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Mathematical physicist and mentor to mathematically talented youth. Talent is that which bridges the gap between what can be taught and what must be learned.

Joined June 2012

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    1. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      Taking a pause to consider what it means that Lydia and Luca are so middle-class, sheltered, and literary (she owned a bookstore and her husband was a journalist before being killed at the start of the novel). Everything is new to her, everyone has to explain everything, and ...

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    2. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      basically it all feels like the novel is pandering to its assumed reader (middle class, sheltered, literary). Myriam Gurba gets this part of the novel exactly right: Lydia is a "pearl-clutching" American tourist in her own country.https://tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-literature/amp/#_ftn1 …

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    3. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      La Bestia at last! But wait, first Lydia has to explain what she's learned on the internet and then she sees some migrants from Honduras jump on. "Now his body is caught, suspended. This. This is the moment of paramount risk. The arms attached, caught, suspended."

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    4. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      Description is OK, but lacks the kind of emotional intensity Change-rae Lee brings to a similar description of refugees hopping on a train during the Korean War in The Surrendered.

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    5. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      About halfway through now: zzzzz

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    6. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      There’s something repulsive about the omniscient narrator. The God-view means we always know what every character is thinking and knowing. It leads to a lot of exposition, but worse makes everyone’s traumatic experience so easily held up to view.

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    7. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      They are traveling w 2 sisters, one exceptionally beautiful and a sufferer of terrible sexual violence. I refuse to go into the details, but the God-narrator lays it all out without any reluctance. There’s no self-reflection about the dangers of telling this kind of story.

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    8. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 22
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      I think I audibly said, ugh. Lydia’s husband wrote an article about the boss and when the boss’s daughter read it she killed herself. This book is pure melodrama with a strong sentimental base.

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    9. Min Hyoung Song‏ @minhyoungsong Jan 23
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      Over 250 pgs in, & novel shows little skill in dialogue, character development, or world building. Plot is both contrived and predictable, even dull. But what it's v good at is offering vivid descriptions of action. And it has a lot of it!

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    10. viet thanh nguyen‏Verified account @viet_t_nguyen Jan 23
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      I remember how Dan Brown novels got critically trashed but still sold tons...I guess I’m going to have to read his and her books just to understand their narrative appeal. But I guess what the critic sees as dullness many readers do not.

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      Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps Jan 23
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      Replying to @viet_t_nguyen @minhyoungsong

      The influence of screenwriting is everywhere in mass-market fiction today. And screenwriting aims to translate action and images into bare-bones prose. Even an incoherent plot still puts butts in seats, as long as the action is thrilling, and the screen full of eye-candy.

      10:21 AM - 23 Jan 2020
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        2. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps Jan 23
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          Replying to @MathPrinceps @viet_t_nguyen @minhyoungsong

          When an audience is used to this sort of storytelling, it accepts the manifold and glaring literary offenses of a Dan Brown with a mere shrug. Plots stolen from notorious plot thieves (often with the previous owners' names still affixed), and painfully hackneyed characters? Yawn.

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        3. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps Jan 23
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          Replying to @MathPrinceps @viet_t_nguyen @minhyoungsong

          It is, alas, just as Edmund Burke informed us, in his celebrated essay ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL: "Custom reconciles us to everything."

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