halfway through Fool
Feb. 22nd, 2009 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's something about Christopher Moore that's just too, I dunno ... too glib. Too clever. Like when you get among a crowd of geeks all trying too hard to be all witty and smarmy and it becomes a contest to see who can cram the most Monty Python and Black Adder references into a single sentence and it's just fecking annoying. Like it would be so much more enjoyable if it didn't seem so forced, so much like a performance.
I'm not saying it's not entertaining, just that it would be a heckuva lot more charming if it wasn't trying so hard.
(Maybe I probably shouldn't have picked up another book so hard on the heels of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; it's going to be a while before I come down from that one.)
I'm not saying it's not entertaining, just that it would be a heckuva lot more charming if it wasn't trying so hard.
(Maybe I probably shouldn't have picked up another book so hard on the heels of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; it's going to be a while before I come down from that one.)
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Date: 2009-02-23 06:54 pm (UTC)SO GOOD. OMG. From start to finish.
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Date: 2009-02-23 06:59 pm (UTC)It's also why I understand if nobody wants to play Trivial Pursuit with me.