Writing Review David Baldacci - King and Maxwell
Jan 18, 2018 10:40:53 GMT 10
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Post by madametarot on Jan 18, 2018 10:40:53 GMT 10
I do not read many books but I just read this one by David Ballacci and I was convinced that the writer was female.
It was a Sunday times #1 Best Seller.
My first impression was it was written as an easy read, with plenty of short sentences and lots of white space and probably a quite low Fog index but I did not check it.
It was an easy read despite it being thick enough to stand on to reach a high shelf.
My incorrect conclusion about the author being female was because of the inclusion of "glances" between opposite sexes and family loyalties including kids and no kids, mixed with low tech descriptions of devices and vehicles and alternate words for obscenities. He also smoothed over the violence but did not eliminate it. And he constantly had relationships being exposed as by-lines to the story and neatness and cleanliness bobbed up regularly.
However, the last thing I read was the page and 1/4 of acknowledgements. He also used people's real names but as different characters.
I checked the internet and there was a photo of David, a very male looking man but the acknowledgements listed a lot of females and some males.
My conclusion.
I concluded that he researched his market well and gave it a broader appeal rather than a niche and then wrote to his readership, the dollars decided that was his best strategy.
The other thing that made me think the author was female was the dialogue and I think he has staged it. That is, I think he has given real people the idea of scenarios and let them decide the actual dialogue, then he has recorded and edited it. I think that was a cunning plan because some key characters are not flavored by the author and the author thereby leaving the author to maintain the flow of the main plot.
Is it worth a read, well it is a book for everybody so whatever you like is tempered back and padded out with something that appeals to someone else. It probably has enough in it for everyone to keep reading and the chapters are short, so it is not too much effort to read another chapter.
It was a Sunday times #1 Best Seller.
My first impression was it was written as an easy read, with plenty of short sentences and lots of white space and probably a quite low Fog index but I did not check it.
It was an easy read despite it being thick enough to stand on to reach a high shelf.
My incorrect conclusion about the author being female was because of the inclusion of "glances" between opposite sexes and family loyalties including kids and no kids, mixed with low tech descriptions of devices and vehicles and alternate words for obscenities. He also smoothed over the violence but did not eliminate it. And he constantly had relationships being exposed as by-lines to the story and neatness and cleanliness bobbed up regularly.
However, the last thing I read was the page and 1/4 of acknowledgements. He also used people's real names but as different characters.
I checked the internet and there was a photo of David, a very male looking man but the acknowledgements listed a lot of females and some males.
My conclusion.
I concluded that he researched his market well and gave it a broader appeal rather than a niche and then wrote to his readership, the dollars decided that was his best strategy.
The other thing that made me think the author was female was the dialogue and I think he has staged it. That is, I think he has given real people the idea of scenarios and let them decide the actual dialogue, then he has recorded and edited it. I think that was a cunning plan because some key characters are not flavored by the author and the author thereby leaving the author to maintain the flow of the main plot.
Is it worth a read, well it is a book for everybody so whatever you like is tempered back and padded out with something that appeals to someone else. It probably has enough in it for everyone to keep reading and the chapters are short, so it is not too much effort to read another chapter.