This destroys narrative coherence and, for much of the time, makes reading a chore".
But each of these debut novels has a confiding, superearnest narrative voice that accounts for much of its breakout popularity this summer.
Granted, one third is not a percentage that meets anyone's idea of parity, but it does lend faith to those who insist that the Connecticut-Tennessee cold war will not be the overriding narrative in the sport for much longer.
You don't go to this author for neatness of narrative as much as for a transcendent kind of tone-poem.
That Holdstock can take two separate myths and meld them into a single narrative says much for his talent.
Brendan's busy adventures load the film with a bit too much narrative for its brief running time, but the sometimes hectic plot ultimately serves as scaffolding for Mr. Moore's extraordinary visual brio.
Some of them merely abandoned carefully plotted narrative for the easier, and much older, narrative structure of the picaresque journey; there was a subgenre of "road pictures" in which the heroes hit the road and let what happened to them, happen.
They also dropped the introduction of the Rat Man, a character who left the messages in the maintenance areas, to avoid creating too much narrative for the game, though the character was developed further in a tie-in comic "Lab Rat", that ties Portal and Portal 2s story together.
The eventual structure always rises out of the words and narratives as they unfold, and for much of the writing I am lost and uncertain, with only a mood and enduring preoccupations to guide me.
For much of her narrative, she resorts to the demotic language of contemporary pornography.
