wednesday reading meme
Apr. 24th, 2014 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eleanorjaneWhat I just finished reading
Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line. I enjoyed this in the same way I enjoyed the Burn Notice tie-ins by Tod Goldberg (which I've been thinking about rereading) -- it's a slice of the show. There were a few odd notes (see below) but by and large, I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to more.
And before that it was Broken Homes, the latest of the Peter Grant books, a couple of days ago. I did not expect the thing at the end! I should have, but I didn't. Probably my second-favourite of the series, after the first book, and I'm looking forward to more.
What I'm reading now
Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone, on the recommendation of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
incandescens and bryant. I'm not far in, and enjoying it so far, although I nearly put it down in Chapter 1 when the book did the foreshadowing thing of "X did this thing, but little did they know it would turn out to be a terrible mistake". (That thing usually makes me totally unable to read any further.) This time I persevered, with a bit of page-skipping involved.
What I'm reading next
Probably Two Serpents Rise, if I finish and enjoy Three Parts Dead. Alternatively, The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan, about which I have heard good things.
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On the oddities in Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line: it follows the movie in suggesting that Veronica ultimately can't get away from Neptune because she's addicted in some way, and that at least partly rings true. But it doesn't acknowledge that Veronica's path when we first see her in the movie -- out of law school, interviewing at a prestigious corporate law firm in NYC -- is her running away. Veronica Mars, fighting for anyone other than the underdog? That's not exactly who she is.
The season 4 extended pilot which showed Veronica as an FBI agent -- that, I can believe. But not Veronica as a corporate lawyer; any path that takes her in that direction is her trying to hide from who she is. But there's zero reflection on that from Veronica; she never once admits that it wasn't the right path for her, instead dwelling in gritty noir style on the inescapability of Neptune.
And Keith doesn't acknowledge that either. He tries, in a completely tone-deaf way, to try to get her to go back to NYC and pick up where she left off. If that's the only choice you're suggesting, Keith, it's no wonder she chose Neptune. You'd think he'd know his daughter better.
Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line. I enjoyed this in the same way I enjoyed the Burn Notice tie-ins by Tod Goldberg (which I've been thinking about rereading) -- it's a slice of the show. There were a few odd notes (see below) but by and large, I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to more.
And before that it was Broken Homes, the latest of the Peter Grant books, a couple of days ago. I did not expect the thing at the end! I should have, but I didn't. Probably my second-favourite of the series, after the first book, and I'm looking forward to more.
What I'm reading now
Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone, on the recommendation of
incandescens and bryant. I'm not far in, and enjoying it so far, although I nearly put it down in Chapter 1 when the book did the foreshadowing thing of "X did this thing, but little did they know it would turn out to be a terrible mistake". (That thing usually makes me totally unable to read any further.) This time I persevered, with a bit of page-skipping involved.What I'm reading next
Probably Two Serpents Rise, if I finish and enjoy Three Parts Dead. Alternatively, The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan, about which I have heard good things.
**
On the oddities in Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line: it follows the movie in suggesting that Veronica ultimately can't get away from Neptune because she's addicted in some way, and that at least partly rings true. But it doesn't acknowledge that Veronica's path when we first see her in the movie -- out of law school, interviewing at a prestigious corporate law firm in NYC -- is her running away. Veronica Mars, fighting for anyone other than the underdog? That's not exactly who she is.
The season 4 extended pilot which showed Veronica as an FBI agent -- that, I can believe. But not Veronica as a corporate lawyer; any path that takes her in that direction is her trying to hide from who she is. But there's zero reflection on that from Veronica; she never once admits that it wasn't the right path for her, instead dwelling in gritty noir style on the inescapability of Neptune.
And Keith doesn't acknowledge that either. He tries, in a completely tone-deaf way, to try to get her to go back to NYC and pick up where she left off. If that's the only choice you're suggesting, Keith, it's no wonder she chose Neptune. You'd think he'd know his daughter better.