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andrewduckerBecause, although Julie just shouted into the room "Andy, there is an interaction I need to have with you." it's clearly dialogue that no real person would ever utter.
(I've just been reading this review of Anathem, wherein he makes exactly that complaint about a line of dialogue that sounds exactly like things I've heard geeks say down the pub.)
(I've just been reading this review of Anathem, wherein he makes exactly that complaint about a line of dialogue that sounds exactly like things I've heard geeks say down the pub.)
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Date: 2009-02-13 08:55 pm (UTC)I'm only 2/3 of the way through Anathem at the moment, and I current think that he has a definite point about it - it's too infodump heavy, and the flow of the book would probably be better without the action bits getting in the way of it :->