OK folks, this is a book review.
Context 1: Me
Back in the mid-1970s one of my mother’s boyfriends took me to a rundown cinema and introduced me to the joy of Godzilla. Later he disappeared from my life, but Godzilla never did. I loved the concept of some giant monster stomping across the horizon. It is a passion that I have carried with me through the various incarnations of Godzilla, and also included all the other giant monsters of cinema-land. I’ve even passed this love onto my daughter!
Context 2: Blogland
As a newly converted WordPress addict I naturally inserted “Kaiju” into my tag-list. And that was when I discovered the Jake Bible blog.
Giant monsters! muhahahahahahahahahahhahahahah…
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Oh darn, I think you should write the review in the present tense!
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It might end up too in-tense 🙂
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Could I ask, what’s so wrong with the present tense, in your opinion?
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There is nothing inherently wrong with it. However it is very rare to write an entire novel in it. It is more suited to just dialogue. What this meant was that each time i hit a present tense verb then I was subtly distracted, hence pulling me up and out of the story; preventing the full immersion that I seek. It took me a good 40 or so pages til that stopped happening.?
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That is certainly an interesting point of view – as for me, I have always found that present tense does it the other way around for me, it actually draws me in and helps with immersion, be it English or Russian. It’s not a common thing in Russian either, but somehow my favourite writers use it quite often.
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Perhaps you are right and it is just something that I need to get used to 🙂
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…y’know, I actually do not believe in there being “right” and “wrong” when it comes to perception/analysis of art. There are different perspectives, all of them bringing a yet another truth to the table.