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monday stuff
You know, Mondays after Thanksgiving are nice. I don't know whether it's the hypnotic power of turkey or the fact that I've eaten enough over the last four days to possibly kill a small island nation, but mmm. Copasetic.
Books - the Good
Because starting with bad hurt me, so I decided to change it.
Books - The Bad
This is the reason I was rereading Martha and Mercedes this last week.
Herbert Novels (not Frank)
Re-read the Dune prequels; weirdly worse than I remember. Baby Herbert, I'd just like to thank you for the constant reminders of the creaminess of Jessica's throat. I mean, without that being mentioned five or six times, that important plot point would have been lost.
Seriously. Editor? Should throw himself on his red pencil.
I think my biggest problem is that it's supposed to be canon except for all the ways it absolutely can't be without a lot of alcohol. Apparently, the Dune series sequels are worse. A very real part of me wants to see if I come out of it bleeding copiously and praying for death; I mean, House Corrino didn't take me that far, but I was awfully close to it.
In closing: I really need to finish writing something. Or hell, start. I only have ten thousand WiPs. I should go look at them. And cry. Just a little. Wondering if I, too, had an issue creamy throats.
One day, when I'm very bored and possibly somewhat brain damaged, I really want ot try to write porn that doesn't once mention either genitalia even by inference, much less reference. Just to see.
Books - the Good
Because starting with bad hurt me, so I decided to change it.
Martha Wells
Entanglement by Martha Wells. Second of her SGA tie-ins and pretty much the only reason I bother with the tie-in novels. But yes. The characterizations are not only good but solid, the dialogue is not traumatizing, and there's a plot that not only makes sense but uses the characters well. And you know, John Sheppard. Awesome.
Quick link to Reliquary by Martha Wells for those who missed it the first time around. Because seriously, you shouldn't.
I keep thinking we need a--something for grouping reviews of tie-in novels. Hmm. Somewhere. for fanpeople. Even money someone is going to hit reply and tell me there is. *glee*
Books - The Bad
This is the reason I was rereading Martha and Mercedes this last week.
Herbert Novels (not Frank)
Re-read the Dune prequels; weirdly worse than I remember. Baby Herbert, I'd just like to thank you for the constant reminders of the creaminess of Jessica's throat. I mean, without that being mentioned five or six times, that important plot point would have been lost.
Seriously. Editor? Should throw himself on his red pencil.
I think my biggest problem is that it's supposed to be canon except for all the ways it absolutely can't be without a lot of alcohol. Apparently, the Dune series sequels are worse. A very real part of me wants to see if I come out of it bleeding copiously and praying for death; I mean, House Corrino didn't take me that far, but I was awfully close to it.
In closing: I really need to finish writing something. Or hell, start. I only have ten thousand WiPs. I should go look at them. And cry. Just a little. Wondering if I, too, had an issue creamy throats.
One day, when I'm very bored and possibly somewhat brain damaged, I really want ot try to write porn that doesn't once mention either genitalia even by inference, much less reference. Just to see.
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Ugh.
Of course, I also say you should never read further than Children of Dune, and that one mainly gets in for the hotness of Leto in the miniseries.
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(Seriously. They came up with a medical reason for why the Beast Rabban was such an asshole.)
So, in addition to turning up my nose at the prequels for their general existence and lack of knocking my socks off, I got the distinct pleasure of turning up my nose at them for neglecting the fannish conversation. ...It was a thing.
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It's crazy to me, because the original Dune was *everything* I want in a science fiction novel. It had themes! And sociology! And politics! And amazing characters! And a kind of destiny! And an intricate world built just for the book!
And just about everything subsequent to that RUINS IT ALL. And it makes me want to weep, because I read Dune when I was maybe 13 years old and just slipped inside the pages for weeks and weeks afterward, because it was that compelling. How can Herbert father and then son take that incredible creativity and bury it under shlock? When I think about it, I'm aghast.
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(It does cover the first 4 of the original books, so there are about 40 entries on the various Duncans Idaho, but the backstory for the first one is the most interesting anyway.)
(Oh, aha, here (http://www.artapprentice.net/dune/)'s some of it online, if you scroll down.)
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And Kevin "I will write with any dead writer you want" Anderson should be beaten, severely.
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*twitch* Sometimes, I pretend there was only one. Ever.
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They are just. So. Bad. And contradictory. And *wrong*.
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That was the strongest reason for me to stop finishing books I picked up no matter what. *cringe*
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I can think of two fics in "The Sting" fandom that might qualify for achieving that trick. One of them is Dorinda's "Buried Treasure Racket" and the other is one of Petronelle's drabble Tricks (http://petronelle.livejournal.com/326264.html). Although the latter does mention pants.
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I have the Encylopedia, it's awesome.
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(And yes, let's just pretend Dune was an only child. In order to spare the blood pressure.)
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