Booking Through Thursday #2
How about a chance to play editor-in-chief? Fill in the blanks:
__________ would have been a better book if ______________.
Thanks John for the suggestion. This is a difficult one, as there is always something I would change with most of the books I’ve read. But some definitely need more work than others. So, after having some time to digest this question here goes my answer:
This is going to need some clarification, without it this statement is very broad so I hope to bring it into perspective. Was by Geoff Ryman is the compilation of three stories, all of which surround one topic. The stories deal with the inspiration of, star of, and an actor who is connected to L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. After reading the blurb on the back of the book I thought this would be a fantastic novel.
The book could probably be saved if each story was told as independent short stories told one right after the other. However Ryman kept jumping between all three stories making it difficult to follow at times. I understand why he wanted to do this but it fell short and so doing three stories in one volume may have saved this book. The three stories were interesting but I felt like I was missing something when the stories moved from one to the next.
