At 01:26 AM 7/23/99 -0600, Christopher Angel wrote:
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4) The narration style, while not really bad, seems a bit...simplistic.  I
kept on having the feeling I was reading a children's story from the tone.

Personally, I rather like the style of narration. It has a certain "je ne sais
quoi," to it-- a (deceptive?) simplicity to it. In and of itself not complex,
but this I think works to its advantage, in this case. Much can be
accomplished
with the use of a simple style-- don't believe? Try picking up Peter S.
Beagle's
The Innkeeper's Song. The narration doesn't distract from the story, and helps
portray a fairly straight-forward approach many of the characters have. A kind
of innocence, if you will, I suppose one could almost say, in the case of No
Need For Ranma (which, if I recall, is a title of one of Henry Cobb's stories,
in which Ranma doesn't survive the neko-ken training).
	Just because something is simple does not make it bad, and just because
something is commplex does not make it good. Sometimes it is harder to write
"simplistically" rather than complex, or confusing (why, just look at any of
my author's notes, or most replies I give! ^_^ ).



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