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Rob Same
, September 30, 2016
Switch is strictly not professionally written
It is a genuinely interesting story. Unfortunately it is written in a flat, second-hand style that is mostly telling not showing. Many aspects of her adventure are not described with any kind of concrete detail at all. She simply reports various incidents and many developments in her life and career are swept away in one desultory sentence or another. At almost no time in Switch is one swept up in a scene or an incident as if one is actually present with the author; there is a dearth of sensory detail, immediacy and even affect in most of what is depicted here. Everything is written in the same semi-flat summary fashion.
The author describes submitting her manuscript to editors who exhorted her to “stop telling and start showing!” A process, which concludes with the LaMorgese triumphantly implying that she has indeed mastered this crucial distinction. Sadly, such is not the case as almost the entirety of Switch reads in this leaden and inert fashion, the work of someone with no clue how to write long-form narrative.
Ms. LaMorgese presents herself as a Ph.D. but you should be aware that her doctorate is an online affair from The Institute of Metaphysical Humanistic Science, an non-accredited outfit with no academic stature.
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