I had made it about halfway through the book (I remember it having an involved plot, though I'm sure that plot didn't remotely resemble the travails of Oedipa Maas), when — just as I was about to turn a page and finish a sentence — I found myself in a capsizing canoe, heading down a raging series of whitewater rapids.
A typical analysis concerns Crooked House, which apparently has "an involved plot with an unexpected denouement".
The involved plot, sweeping across four generations, opens in Transylvania, along the Hungarian-Romanian border, just before World War II.
Other critics have noted an occasional tendency to become bogged down in detail, as in the involved plot of The Five Red Herrings (1931).Her first novel, Whose Body (1923), introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in 14 subsequent novels and short stories.
In place of involved plots in the older manner, there was to be a simple, true, and natural action in the tradition of the classical drama; in place of courtly conventions, there was to be a purely human element.
Coenesque ("featuring bizarre and involved plots, use of irony and black humour, and allusions to film classics") is the only other mention for a Tarantino contemporary I can find in the Collins, but have the brothers really sent out the same shockwaves?
The script for "Bop Gun" was completed before the first season ended, but NBC executives asked for several refinements – including less involved plots and fewer camera movements – before approving a second season.
This involved plotting sensitivity against 1 minus specificity for each possible cut-off point on the global CIA score, and on each domain score, thereby obtaining a full profile of the instrument's performance (Charman et al., 2007; Hanley & McNeil, 1982).
They also concluded that the performance of ICA strongly depends on its involved PCA process.
In the 'pathway' page, genes within its involved pathways were described.
Nor because of its typically convoluted plot.
