Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Subject in need of a "real" writer

Roswell. I say this after finishing Witness to Roswell, a book published this year that is so full of first-hand testimony and information that it's difficult to imagine how the authors made the book so dull. By having no narrative strategy, no structure, no momentum. This is a seemingly random collection of startling information but as such lends itself not to engrossing and gripping reading but to browsing, looking for juicy tidbits.

A writer with talent, who knows how to tell a compelling story, needs to tackle this subject matter. There's lots of evidence on the table now to make a compelling case, an incredibly gripping read. Someone please do it before I pass on.

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