Gah!

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[dan-lian.livejournal.com]

OK... at this point, I'm ready to write LKH a letter and say "LOok. Here are all the sections in your books (photocopies with publishing date enclosed) that say Sylvie does, in fact, like women. Please, before publication, evaluate the need for that statement; otherwise, remove it or please elucidate to your readers why you've done it."

If she does something as big as this, I realy think a flood of letters might at least point SOMETHING out to her.

Then again, I'm very optimistic.

[dan-lian.livejournal.com]

I'm writing her one. I'll find an address somehow, and mail her. I just can't sit idly by on this one.

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

*start optimistic delusion here*

This is being transcribed from an audiobook. There's still a large chance of error on the transcriber's or the reader's part.

The line could have been "I don't do straight women" or "I don't do men", and just heard wrong.
*end optimistic delusion*

Of course I want to see this in print. Totally. In fact, I expect it, unless one of her minions notices this and they somehow get the edit out in time.

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

(sorry for the multi-post, reading the actual thread dashed one of my delusional hopes)
Going back I read that the transcriber listened to it 4 times to be sure she heard correctly.