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This signifies the end. It's like the Titanic winning the Oscar. The Pulitzer means nothing. Holy fuck, a Powerpoint chapter? Original! The author is "a fan of rock music"? Blow me down...punk rockers! How contemporary! Next year, she'll win again with a ship of fools novel about pirates, zombies, and vampires. Shit, "Twilight" should've won...that at least was popular. THIS IS MARKETING. Magmagoblin2 ( talk) 23:45, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
The source does not say that the structure is "unusual" and in 2011, the structure is not considered or classified as "unusual"; it's all been done before, many times. What the source does say is that that this is not a traditional novel delivered from the POV of one narrator. "Instead we're now experiencing the collision of multiple different worlds from unusual vantage points, much like the film Crash, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005." True, and as you can see from the source, an "unusual vantage point" is not an unusual structure. In fact, as the article makes clear, it is quite common in fiction. Viriditas ( talk) 10:39, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The source cited does not say that. Viriditas ( talk) 10:45, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The source cited does not say that. Viriditas ( talk) 10:49, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Etc. If there isn't an error with the source being used here, then the link to the NPR article by Jonathan Bastian is probably supposed to go to his podcast at APR [4] where he spent 50 minutes (over the course of two shows) talking with the author on March 22 and 29th. [5] If that is indeed the case, then the reference needs to be fixed to point to the APR podcasts instead of the NPR opinion page. Viriditas ( talk) 10:54, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Your correct, I was trying to source material that someone else wrote, and Bastian's article was related, but I was going from memory and should have looked at it more carefully. Green Cardamom ( talk) 14:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The "From" is capitalized in the title, see http://jenniferegan.com -- many sites (including Amazon) have it lowercase. The authority is the author herself. Green Cardamom ( talk) 14:12, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
The novel includes a PowerPoint printout, not a PowerPoint presentation. At a presentation, the presenter is there talking as the slides appear onscreen. The book cannot by definition include a presentation. What is in the book is a PowerPoint printout. (BTW, "Many critics were impressed by Egan's experiments with structure, such as a section formatted like a PowerPoint printout" may be true, but many critics were also aghast by the use of printed slides in a novel). Chisme ( talk) 00:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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This signifies the end. It's like the Titanic winning the Oscar. The Pulitzer means nothing. Holy fuck, a Powerpoint chapter? Original! The author is "a fan of rock music"? Blow me down...punk rockers! How contemporary! Next year, she'll win again with a ship of fools novel about pirates, zombies, and vampires. Shit, "Twilight" should've won...that at least was popular. THIS IS MARKETING. Magmagoblin2 ( talk) 23:45, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
The source does not say that the structure is "unusual" and in 2011, the structure is not considered or classified as "unusual"; it's all been done before, many times. What the source does say is that that this is not a traditional novel delivered from the POV of one narrator. "Instead we're now experiencing the collision of multiple different worlds from unusual vantage points, much like the film Crash, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005." True, and as you can see from the source, an "unusual vantage point" is not an unusual structure. In fact, as the article makes clear, it is quite common in fiction. Viriditas ( talk) 10:39, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The source cited does not say that. Viriditas ( talk) 10:45, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The source cited does not say that. Viriditas ( talk) 10:49, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Etc. If there isn't an error with the source being used here, then the link to the NPR article by Jonathan Bastian is probably supposed to go to his podcast at APR [4] where he spent 50 minutes (over the course of two shows) talking with the author on March 22 and 29th. [5] If that is indeed the case, then the reference needs to be fixed to point to the APR podcasts instead of the NPR opinion page. Viriditas ( talk) 10:54, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Your correct, I was trying to source material that someone else wrote, and Bastian's article was related, but I was going from memory and should have looked at it more carefully. Green Cardamom ( talk) 14:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The "From" is capitalized in the title, see http://jenniferegan.com -- many sites (including Amazon) have it lowercase. The authority is the author herself. Green Cardamom ( talk) 14:12, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
The novel includes a PowerPoint printout, not a PowerPoint presentation. At a presentation, the presenter is there talking as the slides appear onscreen. The book cannot by definition include a presentation. What is in the book is a PowerPoint printout. (BTW, "Many critics were impressed by Egan's experiments with structure, such as a section formatted like a PowerPoint printout" may be true, but many critics were also aghast by the use of printed slides in a novel). Chisme ( talk) 00:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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