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to the dogs
Feb. 10th, 2011 10:52 pmI'm reading Patricia Cornwell's Port Mortuary and I don't think I've ever seen a serial protagonist more badly served by a serial installment. I don't mean that it's badly done, I mean it's an ill-conceived plan well executed. Scarpetta doesn't do anything except piece together what the people she trusts have been keeping from her ostensibly for her own protection. And it's all talking heads. Maybe Anita Blake can't focus on a mystery any more and has her head (and portions of several other people's anatomy) up her butt, but at least she's happy.
When I returned it to the library this evening, I had planned on searching out the installment before this one, which I seem to have missed. I couldn't bring myself to do it because I just didn't want to deal with these people again so soon. This one does end though with Scarpetta acquiring a murder victim's abandoned greyhound with whom she seems to establish an instant rapport. Perhaps things will get better.
Trending back?
May. 24th, 2009 09:28 amI've been reading the latest Anita Blake novel from Laurell K. Hamilton. I assume it's the latest one, it's a 14 day loan only. Unlike the last one of these that I read and wrote about here, this one has more plot than sex; but, like the last one, the plot that's actually described on the dustjacket is almost nowhere to be found. I'm much more interested in finding out why Anita's pal visiting his hometown won't name the witness who could prove to his dying father that he isn't gay than I am in finding out why Anita doesn't remember the attack on her by the world's oldest vampire. But, again unlike the last one but like previous ones, this one's dialog is giving me cartoon ideas.
A road not taken (yet?) Being a frustrated prospective self-underutilized funny animal cartoonist while having ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ursulav on your flist leads to a certain cognitive dissonance.
Random quotation from a previous entry The rest of 142 pages has been spent beating off prospective sex partners with a Mary Sue stick. Which, as we all know, backfires. Inevitably, spectacularly and often.
S*G*C Larry Linville coulda played Rodney McKay.
Sick of it I realized yesterday that I'd put a couple of bloopers in AKOTAS this week: in the fairy tale and space timelines, when Arthur led the British forces in a preemptive strike against the Roman emperor Lucius, Merlin stayed home with Guenevere to run the kingdom (reflective of that Merlin is dead by this point in the plot, in all the sources, and does not go on the Roman campaign). But in one throwaway pun each arc in the last week I've shown Merlin and Arthur in the same place. When I newsposted on the site about this, on the message board readers argued that Merlin just always turned up anywhere he wants to, for which the sources do in fact provide plenty of precedent. But I think I will continue to regard them as bloopers, though at the moment I'm too under the weather to care what I can, or am willing to, do to correct them if anything.
Other end of the gamut from Kay Scarpetta
Apr. 27th, 2006 10:17 pm I'm reading a recent Anita Blake novel that I picked off the shelf in the staff lounge. Now the last time, or second-to-last time, I read a couple of these, I recall editing the heroine's banter with the villain for unnecessary length. I actually scripted my revisions and almost drew them for my fanfiction site with Buffy in the lead. Whatever that says about the novel, it wasn't without fun and I was kinda looking forward to doing it again. But I realize it was, after all, the second-to-last time, because I'm reminded now that the last one of these I read had almost no villain scenes in it. I'm reminded because neither does this one. I'm about a quarter fifth of the way in, and so far Anita's spent a single scene on the crime investigation which the inside front cover claims is the book's plot. The rest of 142 pages has been spent beating off prospective sex partners with a Mary Sue stick. Which, as we all know, backfires. Inevitably, spectacularly and often. I should've known when I saw the word incubus in the title.
So since I couldn't write what I expected to, I wrote this, which was fun too.
