Dancing

[lliira]

It's worse than we predicted. I did a really loose sporking of it here while reading it, as that was the only way I could get through it. It is deadly dull.

There are many pages of suburban children learning ballet steps. There is no crimesolving, no action, and no sex, though there are many pages about Nathaniel being a stripper and some Unfortunate Implications regarding the kid Matthew. All the characters but Anita, Micah, and Nathaniel are human, and they could be replaced with full humans with no effect on the plot, such as it isn't. I do not know who LKH wrote this book for. Perhaps she is trying to alienate the last of her fans.

(I hope it's okay to post this here.)

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[jessica collett (from livejournal.com)]

'20) "Soup from scratch is hard," Nathaniel said. Bahahahahah. No wonder Nathaniel puts mayonnaise in all his salads; he is also a shitty cook. Soup is one of the easiest things to cook.'

This just reminds me of LKH's blog, where she boasted how she could cook a turkey for a whole family but couldn't even cook soup from a can. Soup from scratch is so easy.

'29) Matthew's been imitating what he sees at home in preschool. So he is in preschool after all. This means that he has been trying to stick his tongue down the throats of other preschoolers on a regular basis, until "we" (I don't know who, but not Monica, I'm sure) explained to him that that was only for grownups'

This really pissed me off. My mother is a headmistress, and she's had children display this sort of behaviour. It is one of the big, flashing neon signs for sexual abuse (and obviously, I'm not going to go into any further detail). It can be innocent curiosity, but there is no way any teaching professional would not involve social services on witnessing behaviour like this.