From: Ridge, Judith <Judith.Ridge>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:09:37 +1000

The Spectator has a less than favourable review of HP5 at:


and to finish up on the editing thread, here's a quote from the Australian reviewer of HP5 (published in The Melbourne Age, written by Kerry Greenwood, a novelist).

This book needed a stern editor. There are plenty of them around. Strong minded women, generally, who would take to this book with a blue pencil and shorten it to a rowdy, romping, fast-paced, exciting 60,000 words. It is full of trains of thought that struck the writer as a good idea at the time and that could have been usefully pruned. It meanders. When a writer becomes too eminent, it is well known that an editor only makes a very few faint suggestions. It happened to Patrick White after he became a legend. This doesn't do the book any good. Writers need editors. These books make great films because such editing has to take place to make a film script.

The full review is at:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/27/1056683898935.html


Judith

Judith Ridge
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