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[cat63]

So, the protagonist of a detective novel is in an apartment whose owner has been murdered by poison

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[rhodielady_47]

A TEN.
Plus the book company gets a nastygram over the stupidity of it.
:^\

[cat63]

:) It was *so obviously* a device to move the plot along that I wanted to throw things at the author.

I didn't throw the book, as it was on my e-reader, but my goodness....

[rhiannon_s]

Does the scale go to 11? I expect all protagonists to have the occasional outbreak of plot driven stupidity from time to time, otherwise most plots wouldn't work, but they shouldn't be so blatant that the writer has basically switched everything else off to draw attention to the one exceptionally stupid thing that they must do. This scenario sounds like I'd hurl it so hard at the wall there would no longer be a wall, the book would achieve escape velocity. And not just escape velocity from Earth, that book would be moving to fast that it would halfway out of the solar system I'd throw it so hard. Plus you don't nick someone else's beer. There is two options here, plot related stupidity or they've just nicked some other person's beer without a thought. Neither of those scenarios will endear me to them.

[cat63]

The scale can go as high as you want it to ;)

It was just *so* blatantly a "moving the plot along" device that I wanted to scream! Bad author! No biscuit!

I didn't throw the book, meself - it was on my e-reader, so that would have been highly counterproductive. But I hope I neverknowingly meet the author. I fear we would not get on....

[rhiannon_s]

That reminds me. I actually do have an e-reader. Somewhere. Uh.... Damn, not seen it for a couple of months now. That can't be good, right?

[cat63]

I suspect it might need a charge when you find it ;)

[agoodwinsmith]

Grrrr. It would also put me off *ever* picking up anything by that author again.

[cat63]

Yes, I'm not planning to rush out and buy the next in the series, that's for sure...

[g8bur]

Oh, good grief! Words almost fail me. A hardness of ten gazillion out of ten would be about right, I reckon - and the author would be straight off my further reading list.

[cat63]

It was particularly annoying, as the book had been pretty good up to that point.