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Jul 24, 2010 15:57

Saturday at the library, myyyy favorite. Today is the wrap-up party for the Summer Reading Program and guess who gets to the work the kids' section!!! {HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE} Before lunch it was really quiet, and I was bad because I was stationed at the crummy computer that's still running IE6 (that's not a typo) and since Google Docs ( Read more... )

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phe_chan July 24 2010, 23:37:42 UTC

re: Dramacon:
/dies laughing

pegasus2o5 July 25 2010, 13:36:25 UTC

/contemplates CPR

dracoangelica July 26 2010, 03:29:18 UTC

So I read the first Dresdan File Book today in a fit of boredom at work...

pegasus2o5 July 26 2010, 04:49:31 UTC

And...?

(You read the whole thing in one day? At work? I want your job.)

dracoangelica July 26 2010, 06:32:25 UTC

I actually liked it enough to go out and buy the second book today.

But I don't know if I'll continue to like it...sometimes Dresdan is sort of an idiot that can be too stupid to live. (...you let you air guardian talk you into making a fucking love potion? You're a fucking wizard. Surely even HE saw that was a bad idea. OH! And it is always a bad bad bad idea to mix tisanes and aspirin. Why? Because tisanes use an alcohol base. How do I know that? I am currently an amateur potions student right now. No lie)

Still. Its funny, despite the fact that the writer doesn't explain ANYTHING AEKSDFJ SO ANNOYING WHY ARE YOU WAVING YOUR OMNISCIENCE AT ME YOU STUPID NARRATOR!!!....but maybe its part of his evil plan to sell books. *shrug*

pegasus2o5 July 26 2010, 15:09:05 UTC

Dresden gets better at the stupid thing. Seriously, he makes a conscious effort to get better at planning in advance and keeping his smart mouth in check so he doesn't get himself (and other people) killed. It's not an instantaneous thing but he really makes progress. And the writing as a whole improves as the series goes on. Not that it's bad in the first book, or I wouldn't have continued reading the series, but it gets progressively better.

He does still do a certain amount of information-withholding, as in the characters will have a plan but the reader doesn't know what it is... It's always tricky to deal with that with a first-person narrator, but since the alternative is usually to spoil the entire scene, I don't usually get too annoyed. As discussed here: "When the characters come up with a plan to save the day, its chances of success are inversely proportional to how much the audience knows about it beforehand." If we know too much about it beforehand, it won't be nearly so awesome to see the plan come to fruition ( ... )