Excellent writing skills but a poor story
“The writing skills are excellent but the story in itself was quite boring.Why do they carry on a tradition that’s so cruel?I don’t understand the point of writing such a dull book.It wasn’t eerie or scary in any way.it doesn’t fall under horror or comedy or factual.There isn’t enough background on the characters or the hitory of the tradition and leaves me with too many questions.Why was the tradition started?Why is it kept going?Shirley jackson’s writing is excellent but should be used in a different way. I preffered The Haunting.”
—A Customer, July 14, 1999 (via:khrushchev)
It seems as if there’s an implication that there are in literature (and film?) Three True Genres (similar to the Three True Outcomes in baseball):
- horror
- comedy
- factual
