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Jul. 23rd, 2009 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI'm beginning to wonder when, if ever, I'm going to get the chance to watch the last episodes of BSG. I'm 5 episodes in to what Region 2 calls season 5 and Region 1 season 4.2, and stalled there due to lack of TV-watching time. :( Really annoying, because at this stage everything is up for grabs, and what's more, I still can't look at the icon posts on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
galactica_icons for fear of being spoilered. :((
This post isn't about BSG, though. Instead, are there any other Stephanie Plum fans out there, because I've just read the 15th book in the series and...
Spoilers for the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich within
....I must admit, I'm getting a bit tired of them. Okay, the cast of characters is still lots of fun (Grandma Mazur is a hoot) and I still enjoy what to me, not being from Hoboken, is the surreal nature of the setting and events - things like heavily armed senior citizens comparing weapons and the 'viewings' at the funeral home, and the contrast between Stephanie's parents and the life of the Burg, as compared with Ranger and co. But the plots are getting sillier and sillier, which is okay when they make sense but a lot less so when they don't, or the denoument is disappointing, as was the case with this last one, or when you get to the end and realise that an awful lot of what went on was nothing to do with the plot at all even though it was being built up as such, like the 14th one. Also, I'm sick and tired of the Stephanie/Morelli/Ranger love triangle. After all, it's not really a triangle, because it's so obvious who Stephanie's going to choose in the end.
:sigh:
Okay, I know Evanovich has hit on a winning formula and is probably reluctant to mess with it, but I'm all for long-running series allowing character development, as in Lindsay Davis's Falco books, or indeed BtVS.
What does everyone else think?
On a more positive note, I'm reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale, a book about a notorious Victorian murder mystery (a true story), which is not only very well written but also packed full of interesting details about how words such as 'sleuth' and 'lead' and so on became common parlance in detective fiction, and indeed how the general public's view about detectives evolved during the Victorian era. Fascinating stuff.
Finally, I wish I'd paid more attention to the first episode of Desperate Romantics, the BBC's new series about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, featuring the lovely Aidan Turner of Being Human fame as Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This is because, despite already having a plot bunny for my story for the Darla ficathon, I now have another, which I think I might end up writing because it's shorter and possibly more doable given that I seem to have no writing time at all just now, and that program would have been very useful. Oh well, there's always IPlayer.
galactica_icons for fear of being spoilered. :((This post isn't about BSG, though. Instead, are there any other Stephanie Plum fans out there, because I've just read the 15th book in the series and...
Spoilers for the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich within
....I must admit, I'm getting a bit tired of them. Okay, the cast of characters is still lots of fun (Grandma Mazur is a hoot) and I still enjoy what to me, not being from Hoboken, is the surreal nature of the setting and events - things like heavily armed senior citizens comparing weapons and the 'viewings' at the funeral home, and the contrast between Stephanie's parents and the life of the Burg, as compared with Ranger and co. But the plots are getting sillier and sillier, which is okay when they make sense but a lot less so when they don't, or the denoument is disappointing, as was the case with this last one, or when you get to the end and realise that an awful lot of what went on was nothing to do with the plot at all even though it was being built up as such, like the 14th one. Also, I'm sick and tired of the Stephanie/Morelli/Ranger love triangle. After all, it's not really a triangle, because it's so obvious who Stephanie's going to choose in the end.
:sigh:
Okay, I know Evanovich has hit on a winning formula and is probably reluctant to mess with it, but I'm all for long-running series allowing character development, as in Lindsay Davis's Falco books, or indeed BtVS.
What does everyone else think?
On a more positive note, I'm reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale, a book about a notorious Victorian murder mystery (a true story), which is not only very well written but also packed full of interesting details about how words such as 'sleuth' and 'lead' and so on became common parlance in detective fiction, and indeed how the general public's view about detectives evolved during the Victorian era. Fascinating stuff.
Finally, I wish I'd paid more attention to the first episode of Desperate Romantics, the BBC's new series about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, featuring the lovely Aidan Turner of Being Human fame as Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This is because, despite already having a plot bunny for my story for the Darla ficathon, I now have another, which I think I might end up writing because it's shorter and possibly more doable given that I seem to have no writing time at all just now, and that program would have been very useful. Oh well, there's always IPlayer.