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lesbiassparrow) wrote2006-08-12 08:35 pm
lesbiassparrow) wrote2006-08-12 08:35 pm
Lymond, CSI:NY
So I gave up on Game of Kings at about page 250. I just couldn't take it any longer.
It wasn't even so much the langauge but Lymond himself. I really, really found him incredibly annoying and spent most of the book so far wanting to give him a good solid clout around the head. I don't know...I think in the end it was that there was nothing he wasn't good at.
He could:*
a) seduce women after a single meeting
b) lead men better than anyone with cunning twists and turns of his mind
c) plan better than Alexander the Great
d) knew all sorts of odd snippets of poetry and random classical facts with which he peppered his conversation
e) was a pre-iminent swordsman
f) make all others quail at 'the lash of his voice'
g) could drink more than 10 men
etc., etc.
I just bet he turns out to have been framed on the charges of treachery by his brother too. I can just feel that one coming.
I feel a bit sad at this because I know that so many people on my flist whose taste I really like and trust have really enjoyed these books, but I think when you find a lead character that annoying it's death to enjoying the book, especially when you know they are not going to be crushed by the end. And it's weird because I think as a film character I probably wouldn't have had some of the issues I did with book Lymond. Also, and this is a bit embarassing, I couldn't keep track of all the ancillary characters for the life of me. Though I did know pretty much that when any mysterious and attractive man appeared it had to be Lymond.
*Some of these may be exaggerated for rhetorical effect.
But I did watch some clips of CSI:NY today, which I mostly enjoyed. I really liked the Danny/Lindsay introduction scene, where he tells her to call the boss 'sir', and she does and boss goes 'don't call me sir' and she's all annoyed because this is not how you want to start out working somewhere. And then she's all mad at Danny and would rather eat nails than ask him where something is. And you can see he's a bit sorry that he started off like that, but I get the feeling that's the sort of clunky way he interacts with women.
But the gore! There's a reason why I don't watch any of the CSIs and that's the blood and guts and all the rest of it. I don't want to see autopsy scenes; they freak me out. They really should do an abbreviated version of it that is all about the relationships and cuts out all the blood.
It wasn't even so much the langauge but Lymond himself. I really, really found him incredibly annoying and spent most of the book so far wanting to give him a good solid clout around the head. I don't know...I think in the end it was that there was nothing he wasn't good at.
He could:*
a) seduce women after a single meeting
b) lead men better than anyone with cunning twists and turns of his mind
c) plan better than Alexander the Great
d) knew all sorts of odd snippets of poetry and random classical facts with which he peppered his conversation
e) was a pre-iminent swordsman
f) make all others quail at 'the lash of his voice'
g) could drink more than 10 men
etc., etc.
I just bet he turns out to have been framed on the charges of treachery by his brother too. I can just feel that one coming.
I feel a bit sad at this because I know that so many people on my flist whose taste I really like and trust have really enjoyed these books, but I think when you find a lead character that annoying it's death to enjoying the book, especially when you know they are not going to be crushed by the end. And it's weird because I think as a film character I probably wouldn't have had some of the issues I did with book Lymond. Also, and this is a bit embarassing, I couldn't keep track of all the ancillary characters for the life of me. Though I did know pretty much that when any mysterious and attractive man appeared it had to be Lymond.
*Some of these may be exaggerated for rhetorical effect.
But I did watch some clips of CSI:NY today, which I mostly enjoyed. I really liked the Danny/Lindsay introduction scene, where he tells her to call the boss 'sir', and she does and boss goes 'don't call me sir' and she's all annoyed because this is not how you want to start out working somewhere. And then she's all mad at Danny and would rather eat nails than ask him where something is. And you can see he's a bit sorry that he started off like that, but I get the feeling that's the sort of clunky way he interacts with women.
But the gore! There's a reason why I don't watch any of the CSIs and that's the blood and guts and all the rest of it. I don't want to see autopsy scenes; they freak me out. They really should do an abbreviated version of it that is all about the relationships and cuts out all the blood.