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lkh_lashouts2007-06-01 09:52 am
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Gah!
One of the things that drives me insane about LKH is her inability to keep facts straight. Is is really that damn hard? I don't write, so I don't know, but it seems to me that if you had this big universe going, and it was hard to keep track of all your characters, you would have an encyclopedia of the facts to refer to.
From chapter 26 of The Whoreliquin:
Jason: I am your wolf in case your beast decides to rise.
Anita: I thought Sylvie..........
Sylvie: With the ardeur raised in the room, I'm not staying. Nothing personal, Anita, I mean you're cute but I don't do women.
(Big sidebar: IIRC, I could have sworn that Jason said in an earlier book that Sylvie liked girls. And when Padma's son raped her, it was even more evil because Sylvie was suppose to be gay. Am I crazy or am I thinking about someone else?)
Sylvie: With you this weak, Anita and JC out of it, I don't want to take the chance of the ardeur spreading throughout the room. The wolves will do everything they can to get you all through this.
Dammit, Sylvie is gay! This is one of the few facts we do know about Sylvie. Since she's written so little about this character, is it that difficult to remember this one thing? I'm so tired of her YABBI's and her sorry excuses 'oh, sorry, it's so hard to keep track of the details of so many characters - oops!' *smacks her*
From here, chapter26, at the boards.
From chapter 26 of The Whoreliquin:
Jason: I am your wolf in case your beast decides to rise.
Anita: I thought Sylvie..........
Sylvie: With the ardeur raised in the room, I'm not staying. Nothing personal, Anita, I mean you're cute but I don't do women.
(Big sidebar: IIRC, I could have sworn that Jason said in an earlier book that Sylvie liked girls. And when Padma's son raped her, it was even more evil because Sylvie was suppose to be gay. Am I crazy or am I thinking about someone else?)
Sylvie: With you this weak, Anita and JC out of it, I don't want to take the chance of the ardeur spreading throughout the room. The wolves will do everything they can to get you all through this.
Dammit, Sylvie is gay! This is one of the few facts we do know about Sylvie. Since she's written so little about this character, is it that difficult to remember this one thing? I'm so tired of her YABBI's and her sorry excuses 'oh, sorry, it's so hard to keep track of the details of so many characters - oops!' *smacks her*
From here, chapter26, at the boards.
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YAABI ho!
Ok, now I'm over my Thundercats moment, I think I can try and find some words for this.
Words like stupid, hairbrained, moronic, incompetant post-it user!
Make some damn character profiles woman. Then you won't mess them up and you might actually keep some fans who aren't troos (who probably couldn't care less if she messes up). Also it means that you might not have such badly written and badly spelled books, since you might be able to keep things like people's name spellings and plots straight.
I know she is just a minor (and female) character who isn't connected to the crotch-o-doom, but for all that is holy please get her character right.
/rant.
The worse thing is it doesn't even surprise me anymore. I've come to expect this sort of thing from her, hell I'd be surprised if she didn't screw something like this up.
And Slyvie was one of my fave characters too. One I was hoping was going to be safely hidden somewhere away from the clusterduck these books have become.
Finally, anyone notice that she's starting to bring 'old' characters back into the books. Maybe she's been listening to someone's complaints.