IoScrittore - Guest on "incomplete" # 11 -> 
Here are the next ten reviews the novel received The vanity of falling stars , aka" the stump "during the final stage of the tournament IoScrittore literary group organized by Mauri English:
# 11 is a nice adventure novel, full of intriguing elements. Well written, with exhortations to the reader of nineteenth-century type that reveal the near future or distant past.
Rating: 8
# 12 Do a high mark in this novel, in all honesty, it was written brilliantly, with skill, passion and trade. Unfortunately I do not think it can be classified as incomplete (missing at least one third of the work) due to excessive length. The author has seen good not to compact it (which I would have done) leaving little more than half of the reading. In fact, I think, should not enter the competition, so it should be considered ingiudicabile. Too bad.
Rating: 7
# 13 Woven texture and sophisticated, Celtic legends and scientific truths thoroughly mixed: Astrophysics and crime, the extinction of dinosaurs and the mysterious alien stones capable of changing the destiny of people. So many irons in the fire, but 'not passionate about. These stones are everywhere, do anything and eventually it can not be more. The writing is mature, but the text is presented clearly incomplete and as explicitly stated by the author on the last page, was cut cleanly through the last 200000 lines to fit in the competition. This fact obviously affects the valuation.
Rating: 5
# 14 Write write, but it is too in love with words. The result is a story wordy and boring, where you can get lost in so many unimportant details and in the end you get nothing. Unfortunately we are in a hectic society, bombarded with stimuli and information. It becomes an enormous task facing a story so exhausting and totally devoid of pathos or irony. Often the author makes it even irritating as when he uses the plural second at the beginning (you what?) And when you put a final end. To get published, perhaps should have more respect for the player and for his time.
Rating: 3
# 15 work accomplished in the expression, in construction, in the language: the author is certainly mature and fully master the written word. Fascinating choice of theme and execution. Really nice!
Rating: 10
# 16 This is a complex story, written in its different parts often smooth or errors. However, the plot is very complex to follow, broken into at least seven sections and the end is not clear which way you're going to parry. Very nice part of Lucretia in Esterville, the better. Excellent descriptions of places, a little of those meticulous people, almost a shopping list. Slowly the story unfolds and moves from one narrative to a more contemporary markedly fantastic, which makes it even more difficult to see the amalgamation generally. In addition, the direct nod to the reader, in fragments, breaking identification with the story and characters. Sometimes the astronomical references become heavy, to excess. Towards the bottom is light the imminent expiry of the pages and still not glimpsed the end of history, Revelation, then if they understand the reasons. And you can tell a story incomplete? What could be better written with more clarity of purpose, but above all should not be left in this contest as surplus and left a lot of the jokes and, therefore, removed the end. There is too much to follow, to keep in mind, to be connected. The historical periods follow one another along decades, centuries, eons. There is much vehemence narrative, mismanaged, to be harnessed through a careful study of narrative techniques more effective, simplifying the installation and to sacrifice something to make it possible to reconstruct a set too fragmented. However, I find a good hand, this you must admit.
Rating: 4
# 17 Somoya Dear, I wanted to quattrocentomillesima good joke, then I hated it. However, come to us. "The vanity of falling stars" is a great adventure novel. Really nice. The characters and timeframes are interwoven without overloading or confusing the reader, the language is fluid and elegant, very evocative. There are two scenes rather weak, but nothing terrible, anyway because it's worth improving: the murder of Miriam has a dynamic untenable. At one point, the murderess, the strangling and stabbing at the same time keeping the chain in one hand and the knife with the other. Another weakness is the story of Lucrezia first time sees the children gathered around the stumps and the brazier. Deemed it too "normal," insists a little with Catherine, no worries as one would expect. We get to vote: the entire novel would give 9. For Somoya own admission, it lacks a third party, then I would lower the voting proportionally. In closing, I add a personal note: I am really amazed at the author's ingenuity. The most obvious stylistic flaw of the novel, in my opinion that no one, it is the prolisittà of some scenes. Slow and long descriptions as the University of Padova are shortened or eliminated without detriment to the plot. Does not penalize your wicked choice, Alexander, to publish the ratings on your blog speaking ill of the tournament and those who participate. GEMS will think, I think. Good luck!
Rating: 6
# 18 A really funny joke. After reading much of the novel, I realize that at the end of the last page it says: "there are still 200,000 but the regulation is iron bars." Unclassifiable and unpronounceable my comment.
Score: 1
# 19 I found an excellent phrasing, sliding, with mastery of lexical and syntactic. The novel can be understood with particular pleasure the expectations of a plot that is realized from the start but, Unfortunately, too many meandering winds, including specialized, long space and time interrelated. The pleasantness of the period and the literary discourse clashes, in my opinion, with the heaviness of the plot. Moreover, as also noted at the end of the novel, the story has no end ... done it would take many more pages.
Rating: 7
# 20 A novel that starts well, the plot starts slow but the pace gradually increases. Good idea to alternate different planes of time, you can imagine the devilish link between the different events. Forward by about half the pace slows, and the plot twists around tedious digressions, you will also find a dish, a young, Gallileo. The story ends in nothing, Lucrezia remains suspended between life and death, await the great Sabbath of August 10, all on the cliff with the famous stones in the neck. And then? Boh. Inconclusive. The author would still like 200,000 lines to conclude, I will cut off at least 100,000 of those already written to give rhythm and verve to the narrative.
Rating: 5
