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[electricland]

Last night on the Longest Commute in History (for me, anyway -- left the office at 5:30, got home at 7 after an hour on the streetcar which is unusually bad even for the 501) I had nothing to read. Woe! So I read over some guy's shoulder instead. It was something called Protect and Defend, by one Vince Flynn, who if you believe his Google results is a bestselling author, and the few passages I read were so bad that I was tempted to snatch it from the guy's fingers and hurl it out the window. If I could have reached the window, which is not at all certain, because the streetcar was so packed that people were regularly having to yell "Get off the steps!" so the driver could shut the doors and we could go somewhere. Anyway. I digress. (Model numbers of weaponry in the midst of action sequences: usually a bad sign, IMO, although to be fair it seems to work for lots of people.)

An actual sentence from the book:

Before Rabb could ask what he meant, a group of Kurds burst through the door and started shooting at their leader just then.

It was a long, hard trip home, I tell you. I was very glad when I got a seat, because then I could write Christmas cards.

Blue continues adorable. His breeder told me he loves to look out the window, and she wasn't kidding: one of his new favourite spots is the back of the couch. Picture a 35-pound fluffy dog perched on the back of a couch, staring out the window. It's hilarious and cute. Must take photos.

Comments

awww!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Blue sounds SOOOO wonderful!! YAY BLUE!! :D.

Re: awww!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

he is! and you will have to come see him!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I tried to read Vince Flynn once. I can heartily second this - he sure as heck doesn't get better with more exposure.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Apparently prose style doesn't matter to some people (see also: Clancy, Tom). It kind of blows my mind.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

my current hitlist of prose stylists who have delusions of grandeur includes Lawrence Scanlan -- Canadian Author, writes horsey books, has ZERO SENSE about verb tense. He thinks it's something to fling about randomly! To set TONE! Make everything more IMMINENT! (read: FUCKING CONFUSING!). It's SOOOOO irritating. My aunt gave me a signed copy of his book on Secretariat. It's supposed to be this Great! Gift! His sig line is rather dumb "To P, who no doubt rides much better than I do." And the book? I haven't made it past the first chapter. Because ACK! ANNOYING! I now remember why teh 2 other books of his I own are sitting on the shelf, unread in SPITE of their shld be really interesting to me subject matter....

ahem. I think I just ranted ;).

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

Blue sounds like the most adorable possible, and that book sounds totally revolting.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Ouch, that's a long commute.

And yes, photos! Photos of him looking out the window would also be cool. :)