Reading FAIL

[shadydave]

So, I am annoyed at the book I'm reading (Dark North by Gillian Bradshaw). It's been good so far, but when I had to stop reading yesterday, the main character just did something so UTTERLY RETARDED there's no way I can justify it as anything except a way to move the plot along. I feel you can squeak by with a few minor incidents of these while writing, and it's true that some people abuse it way more than others (::coughcough:: TORCHWOOD ::coughcough::), but it turns out plot stupidity is, if possible, EVEN MORE ANNOYING when it occurs in an otherwise quality environment.

Anyways, now I don't really want to keep reading because obviously bad stuff will happen because of the STUPID STUPID STUPID plot twist, but I do want to find out what happens. And thus, I am annoyed.

ETA: Ok, so it turns out it was historically motivated stupidity. However, that kind of makes it worse, because it means that the ENTIRE STORY started because of this one incident in history, but when we actually get to that incident, the way the main character is written makes it unlikely that he would actually do the one thing he actually did.

I liked the ending though, so overall it was pretty good.

In other reading FAIL, Mallory has become addicted to Twilight, despite Marge and I yelling "SPARKLY VAMPIRES IN VOLVOS!" and "JUDGMENT!" and now Marge wants me to read it to ascertain how bad it really is. POR QUE, EVO.

Comments

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

THAT DID NOT TURN OUT WELL FOR LUKE. HE GOT ELECTROCUTED.

(UNDEADWARD!)

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

AND YET HIS DESTINY WAS UNDOMINATED. So there.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

YOU DON'T KNOW THAT. YOU HAVEN'T READ THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE.

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

JUDGMENT.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

Well, neither have I. Technically. But Kurt has! AND FROM WHAT I HEAR, IT ISN'T PRETTY FOR LUKE!

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

Now I am judging you AND the EU. JUDGMENT ALL AROUND.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

WHATEVER. YOU ARE WILLINGLY WATCHING THE TWILIGHT TRAILER.

*judges you even harder*

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

ONLY BECAUSE I WANTED TO SEE WHAT WAS BEING SPOOFED. WHICH IS MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A CERTAIN SOMEONE AND STAR WARS TIE-IN NOVELS, WHICH DID NOT TALK ABOUT "UNDEAD EDWARD" AND "EVIL JAMES" AND THUS ARE EVEN MORE LAME THAN AN ALREADY LAME THING.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

I WAS IN FIFTH GRADE. YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER.

(Heh. Undeadward. Gets funnier every time I hear it.)

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

THAT WOULD SURELY BE A DEVASTATING COMEBACK IF NOT FOR THE FACT THAT YOU READ THEM LONG AFTER FIFTH GRADE, SO THERE.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

EIGHTH GRADE WASN'T THAT LONG AFTER FIFTH.

YOUR FACE.

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

"EIGHTH GRADE," RIGHT.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

. . . ?

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

I AM QUESTIONING YOUR VERACITY.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

I QUESTION THE VERACITY OF YOUR FACE.

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

I QUESTION THE VERACITY OF YOUR MOM.