Argh! Stoppit!

[erastes]

Yes, spam from me today, I've got stuff to catch up on.

I'm 100 pages into "The Deception Point" by Dan Brown (yes, I know - why???? but my library is the size of a garden shed and has VERY little choice) and I'm screaming at the pages ALREADY.

I don't need to know the ins and outs of a helicopter or the exact description of Air Force One - and OMG I mean a uber detailed description of Air Force One, beginning with the outside, telling me the numbers of each plane - then going into a room by room description.... THEN a long dull descrioption of The Oval Office. Does this man not realise that we've seen films? He even tells us the exact dimensions of The White House.

100 pages in and NOTHING'S HAPPENED! (that's not true, someone's been thrown off a plane) If you took out all the pointless description the book would be 20 pages in at this point.

I really REALLY shouldn't read this crap, it just raises my blood pressure. If anyone was remotely interested I'd spork it. I'm not even doing 50 or 100 novel a year, but the thing is I got four books from the library and I'm an addict, I must read them all.

And I do love University Challenge.

David Bowie's Birthday today! Yay! *smooshes him* I'm now of an age where it wouldn't be odd for me to date him. *looks hopefully*

Oh and new versions of Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Mansfield Park to look forward to this year, although Billie Piper In Mansfield Park? Do us a favour, guv, I don't fink so. *gags*

Comments

[angrboda]

Heh! Sounds like he's got a very small story to tell but has been told to make it stretch out on a whole lot of pages.

(Sounds a whole lot like my NaNo project. Wish I had thought about describing my character's house like that room for room. Only did the kitchen.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Chortles. If nothing else, Dan Brown is a classic example of how not to do it.

What sucks is that he got famous doing it so badly.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I don't know how old are you, but even if David Bowie probably has the double of my years, doesn't matter, he is so interesting... I like his music, but also some movie, like Gigolo (strange movie, really, black and white).

And Dan Brown? I can proudly say I have never read The DaVinci Code and neither I have seen the movie... I'm a little snob, when something is too popular, I don't like it... I know, I know, it's a bad thing...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i've adored The Thin White Duke since i was about .. 13? that would be just after Ziggy retired I think... showing my age...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

"The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" is one of my cherished LP. I have bought it on second hand and is still perfect!

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Yay, new versions of Austen books! Boo, Brown! I admire your patience in even getting past page ten.

[chaos-rose.livejournal.com]

A Dan Brown book is not a read, it's a penal sentence.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You are exactly right, and more so for bibliophiles - once I start a book i have to finish it and it's like the worst kind of torture - complete masochism.

argh!

[aunty_marion]

There's a very good reason why I've never bothered to even start The Da Vinci Code. I'm like you, I'd have to finish it. And from what I've heard of it, I reallyreally don't want to read it. I am avoiding all Dan Brown stuff like the plague.

[welshbard.livejournal.com]

I read Angels and Demons last year. Not quite the uber description of unnecessary stuff you describe, but I did want to throw the book across the room because his brand-new Christianity-smashing theory from particle physics (the existence of anti-matter, specifically the positron) has been observed in nature since 1932. And he got all the details wrong.

So, the fundamental source of conflict in the book consisted of bad physics that could easily have been fixed.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

getting all the details wrong and in the wrong order is a particular gift of Mr Brown's, I think.

New Persuasion

[dubaiyan.livejournal.com]

Can't wait...blond Wentworth! But Penry-Jones had a fine "Pierce my soul" look in the trailer anyway.

Re: New Persuasion

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I should join pemberley for moments like this, I bet the hens are clucking like mad things.

It's about time we had a Northanger Abbey, it's one of my favourites - but oh dear no, not Billie.

Lawkes.

Bowie

[dubaiyan.livejournal.com]

Friend sent me Labyrinth, do you rec?

Re: Bowie

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oh yes, there's so much to love about it. I love Ludo, and the Escher references and Hogwart and the killing fairies and there's Bowie wearing doublet and hose before Lycra was invented...

*G*

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Yaye for Bowie! I sang Starman all day a few days ago.

Billie Piper? is. a. twat. Glad she's off Dr Who.

Totally random and not at all pertaining to this. I need a Tom Baker icon :P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I was glad to see the end of her too. I hope the new bird is better.

I have a good TB icon for you, but you'll have to be patient until i can get it over to you, i dont have paint on this pc

[ter369.livejournal.com]

...although Billie Piper In Mansfield Park? Do us a favour, guv, I don't fink so. *gags*

That's sorta my reaction to all the casting for the revived Doctor Who, but then I've skipped the series over the past decades whenever I found the leads annoying as actors.

Anyway.

I read British Vogue while on an airplane last spring, where the Billie Piper article had a quote from .... someone ... who'd seen her auditions for theatre work, saying she was quite good: "National Theatre standard."

Okay!