Publishing. "you want cause & effect"?

[Becky Lindroos]

A Brief History of Seven Killings is a good novel.   I’ve read the Booker Long List (except 3 not yet available in the US).   It was actually my pick for the winner  but I was torn between it and A Little Life.   About a week ago I decided A Little Life was too manipulative so it was 7 Killings.  

It’s not an easy read - reporter goes to interview people involved in the assassination attempt on Bob Marley - lots of sex, drugs, violence, dialect, etc.  Complex structure with many characters (listed in front) -  I did better with the Audible version than the ebook because of the dialect,  but I actually used both to keep track of names and so on.  

“…at some point you gotta expand on a story. You can’t just give it focus, you gotta give it scope. Shit doesn’t just happen in a void, there’re ripples and consequences and even with all that there’s still a whole fucking world going on, whether you’re doing something or not. Or else it’s just a report of some shit that happened somewhere and you can get that from nightly news.”  

https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/082015-2/a-brief-history-of-seven-killings/

Bekah/Becky 
(still here,  just had problems with my sends to Pynchon). 


> On Oct 14, 2015, at 4:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Peter Y. Chuang ‏@peterychuang  33s33 seconds ago
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> Man Booker winner's debut novel rejected nearly 80 times
> http://gu.com/p/4d9pd/stw  That's comforting.
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