I'm going to post something that is unmitigated happiness for me.

[cypsiman2]

I actually love exposition. I love learning things, I love understanding things, I love when the story stops and takes the time to sit down and talk to me one on one so I can be brought into that world more fully. Are there bad ways to exposit? Sure, but exposition in and of itself is a good and useful tool that does certain things more efficiently and more clearly than other methods of conveying information in the narrative.

Comments

[cypsiman2]

Oh wow, that's quite some timing on that! Sounds like an interesting if challenging read!

[dissonantbrie]

It's so interesting. I will say Kuang does excellent work at making it manageable, though it's also intersecting with the violence of colonialism, so anyone not primed in any of it might stumble a bit.

It's actually a book that I think is largely exposition and summary and broken up by scenes, rather than vice versa. I'm about halfway through and the book and it's occasionally strange to come away from it and realize that, but that's also why it's 500 pages. Hahaha.