Well, The Rake proposal is all ready to go in the mail now. That's pretty much all the writing work I've done so far. Last night I read Janet Evanovich's current Stephanie Plum, Ten Big Ones. Loved it. Then I started a book by an author I hadn't read before. I threw it in the trash about halfway through, a point I reached by reading portions of every other page. The heroine was 21 and the hero 35. In a contemporary! So, yeah, make her super smart, blah blah blah. I just couldn't get past my wondering why on earth a 35 yo man would be interested in a 21 yo except for the obvious. A girl, by the way, he's been waiting to nail since she was 17. Ick. He's a sicko. The book just did not work for me (new acronym: dnwfm) So then I started another one, also by an author I haven't read before. It was page 80 before there was any plot thread that so much as whispered these two would meet. I haven't given up yet, but I'm close. The villian is, I fear, a mere variant of the CSK (Crazed Serial Killer). Give a baddie an MA (wtf?) and 2 PhD's and send him into the hills to conduct biological/pharmacological research. Where's the electron microcsope going to fit? Is he running ELISA gels? On what equipment? He's got rats so I guess he can just dissect them and know for a fact that his biopharma agent is what killed them. Who needs to centrifuge the livers and reduce them to a slurry so they can be run through a gel to confirm the genes that are there? Not the Crazed Molecular Geneticist! (CMG) He's got an MA and 2 PhD's so he doesn't actually have to do the science.
posted by Carolyn @ 6/11/2006 07:30:00 PM Permalink
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