halfway through Fool

[wasabi_poptart]

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.)

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[donrickles.livejournal.com]

I think that is why I was just a plain old outcast rather than a geek. The geeks were too smarmy and condescending.

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

And I think this was why I always have aspired to be somewhat cooler than the average geek ... not because there is anything inherently wrong with being a geek, or with geeky interests, just that geeks themselves often make for such insufferable company.

It's also why I understand if nobody wants to play Trivial Pursuit with me.