Iain M Banks’ Look to Windward has descriptive passages that are just paragraph after paragraph made up of single long sentences. I just counted one at 113 words. You can’t actually read these beasts. You just have to let all the adjectives and nouns kinda imprint your brain.
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It’s an effective technique for visual description. Impressionistic image forms in your head. The scale of the sentence conveys the scale of the scene (here a river on a massive artificial space orbital habitat). Quite clever. I don’t think I’d like composing such things though.
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I hate this kind of writing because my brain doesn't do visual imagery, so I just end up glossing over paragraphs with no idea what they said.
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