… and got it right; there was a lot of media speculation yesterday as to what would come out of Oslo this morning. But in the end I think the Bangladeshis very much deserve it.
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Re “you know from quite early on how it’s likely to end (and it duly does end that way)”
In a way this is exactly what Kay always does, and he is so very good at it that it is hard to believe.
I guess it all comes down to how believably he can make it about the journey, not the destination. And there’s the occasional heart-stopping moment when you get the real-world location perfectly described in a supposedly fantasy world, like mentioned above.
The only railroad-plotted novel by someone else I remember thoroughly enjoying was “The Wreck of the River of Stars”, even if nowhere near as good as Kay.
Re “you know from quite early on how it’s likely to end (and it duly does end that way)”
In a way this is exactly what Kay always does, and he is so very good at it that it is hard to believe.
I guess it all comes down to how believably he can make it about the journey, not the destination. And there’s the occasional heart-stopping moment when you get the real-world location perfectly described in a supposedly fantasy world, like mentioned above.
The only railroad-plotted novel by someone else I remember thoroughly enjoying was “The Wreck of the River of Stars”, even if nowhere near as good as Kay.
— Teemu Kalvas