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DeSoya · 06-10-2002, 08:45 PM

I've heard the last page of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" termed as "The most poetic representation of the failiure of the American Dream". It's prose.
If it's metaphors that you want try looking at K.C. Cole's "First You Build A Cloud" or any book by Lawrence Krauss (The physics of Star Trek is one of his). The idea being that they are well spoken, easy to understand authors that use an incredible amount of metaphor and smilie because the subject they cover (physics) demands it. And some of the writing is quite funny too. Big plus.

DeSoya

06-10-2002, 08:45 PM	#20
DeSoya Manshoon Join Date: March 27, 2002 Location: Boulder, CO Age: 47 Posts: 199	I've heard the last page of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" termed as "The most poetic representation of the failiure of the American Dream". It's prose. If it's metaphors that you want try looking at K.C. Cole's "First You Build A Cloud" or any book by Lawrence Krauss (The physics of Star Trek is one of his). The idea being that they are well spoken, easy to understand authors that use an incredible amount of metaphor and smilie because the subject they cover (physics) demands it. And some of the writing is quite funny too. Big plus. DeSoya __________________ \"We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn\'t have to stop there.\" <br />Dana Gould