Pixy's Lit'ry Review
Two books.
To the Nines by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum's a Jersey Girl. That's New Jersey, in case you're confused. Retrenched from her job as a lingerie buyer (not nearly as glamorous as it sounds), she took the only job she could get: working for her cousin Vinny, a slimeweasel who runs a bail bond agency. So now Stephanie's a bail bond enforcement agent - a bounty hunter. Which isn't as glamorous as it sounds either. Particularly when you're no good at it, and she isn't. Stephanie gets by on luck, a little help from her friends, and extreme persistence. This is the nine-and-a-halfth Plum outing, and the series has gotten into a comfortable groove. Which is good - you know what you're getting - and bad - you know, well, you know what you're getting. And that's what you get. To the Nines is smart, funny, and well-written, and it advances its characters maybe an eighth of an inch. Still recommended. 4 out of 5.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling Also the latest in a series of bestsellers. In this volume, Harry turns into an adolescent git, blah blah, someone dies, the end. This takes eight hundred pages. There are a couple of very effective scenes. In eight hundred pages. There's a good two-fifty or three hundred page novel in there, slowly suffocating. It's not the worst eight hundred page pile of excess verbiage I've ever read - Wizard's First Rule takes that laurel - but it needs the attention not so much of an editor's red pencil as a pair of electric hedge trimmers. Meh. I give it 2 out of 5.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:05 PM
Comments
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Great reviews, Oh Renaissance Man!
Posted by: Susie at July 28, 2003 11:22 PM (xYaKi)
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You know, I'd like to toss in Tom Clancy as one who writes 300 page novels in 1000 page packages...
Starting with "The Sum Of All Fears," a book I only finished because I was trapped on a bus traveling between Fargo and Helena, and I had nothing else to do.
Fneh.
Starting with "The Sum Of All Fears," a book I only finished because I was trapped on a bus traveling between Fargo and Helena, and I had nothing else to do.
Fneh.
Posted by: Raja at July 29, 2003 11:58 PM (q7i1y)
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I, on the other hand, write 300 page novels in 100 pages. (Counts words.) Maybe 150. Makes them exciting, but hard to sell.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 30, 2003 12:21 AM (kFP8F)
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It could be worse. I write fan fiction, which gives me negative points on the literary scale.
Posted by: raja at July 30, 2003 01:31 AM (EeavR)
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As long as it's not Sailor Moon lemon fanfic, you're forgiven 
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 30, 2003 01:43 AM (a1gWn)
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