When books attack!
I finished "The Dark Tower" several weeks ago. Now nothing big in that, but after investing so long in that book series that was rather heavy and emotionally weighty (yes I know 'weighty' is not a word but bite me!), well anyway, I have not been able to read anything but well... fluff since then.
And I don't mean fluff as in Mills and Boon, Babysitters Club or even my old Chemistry textbooks (my nightmares involve not being able do do a simple and frankly easy empirical formula question).
When I mean fluff I mean shot-em-up redneck wonderland type thrillers by David Robbins. I mean seriously I know these books are not Shakespeare, heck! These books ain't exactly Jackie Collins! They are really really bad.
At the moment I am churning my way through his Endworld/Blade series. Basic post-apocolypic stuff, but it is BAD.
I mean the character, heroes, villians and everybody in between are not just basic cardboard cutout type characters, no! They go beyond that! They are Mickey Mouse Cartoon Sterotype characters! You name a cliché and the book, the characters and the plot will be so sapped up with it, you'll be wiping the book on pancakes!
Per exampla: The 'freedom militia' do a run to post-World War III Las Vegas, which is now currently ruled by the mob - who all where buttoned suits, fedora hats and look and act like Bugsy Malone. And that seriously folks is average in terms of the cartoon sterotypes - Indians gone 'back to their roots' like something out of "Dances with Wolves", Cowboys, Communists, you name it, the cliché is there and thriving like penicillin in a rotting banana.
The 'heroes' are made up of a seven foot guy and a bunch of walking sterotypes - they even have a Ninja! There is the army dude, the indian, the street wise black dude, the cowboy... Seriously if there was a construction worker, you'd have the Village People!
And they 'shoot first ask questions later' in true shoot-em-up style. They'd make the NRA look like the Million Mom March!
Yet, as much as I am gripping about it... I am still reading them, and I don't mean one book... I mean I own about half the series.
Why?
Well they are fast reads - 150-200 pages at best, and frankly I can find them at St. Vinnies for like 50c a double-edition book. So they are cheap to. And frankly they are brain candy - I don't have to think, discuss, or any of that type of crap. I just read and that is basically it.
So am I proud of reading this crap? Not really, but I also really have no problems with it either. Its bad, really bad, and I know it is really bad, but after reading something so heavy, I just needed a break from literature that makes you think.
Eh. C'est La Vie. The boy wizard is coming soon. I'll be onto that anyway. This is just interim stuff.
And I don't mean fluff as in Mills and Boon, Babysitters Club or even my old Chemistry textbooks (my nightmares involve not being able do do a simple and frankly easy empirical formula question).
When I mean fluff I mean shot-em-up redneck wonderland type thrillers by David Robbins. I mean seriously I know these books are not Shakespeare, heck! These books ain't exactly Jackie Collins! They are really really bad.
At the moment I am churning my way through his Endworld/Blade series. Basic post-apocolypic stuff, but it is BAD.
I mean the character, heroes, villians and everybody in between are not just basic cardboard cutout type characters, no! They go beyond that! They are Mickey Mouse Cartoon Sterotype characters! You name a cliché and the book, the characters and the plot will be so sapped up with it, you'll be wiping the book on pancakes!
Per exampla: The 'freedom militia' do a run to post-World War III Las Vegas, which is now currently ruled by the mob - who all where buttoned suits, fedora hats and look and act like Bugsy Malone. And that seriously folks is average in terms of the cartoon sterotypes - Indians gone 'back to their roots' like something out of "Dances with Wolves", Cowboys, Communists, you name it, the cliché is there and thriving like penicillin in a rotting banana.
The 'heroes' are made up of a seven foot guy and a bunch of walking sterotypes - they even have a Ninja! There is the army dude, the indian, the street wise black dude, the cowboy... Seriously if there was a construction worker, you'd have the Village People!
And they 'shoot first ask questions later' in true shoot-em-up style. They'd make the NRA look like the Million Mom March!
Yet, as much as I am gripping about it... I am still reading them, and I don't mean one book... I mean I own about half the series.
Why?
Well they are fast reads - 150-200 pages at best, and frankly I can find them at St. Vinnies for like 50c a double-edition book. So they are cheap to. And frankly they are brain candy - I don't have to think, discuss, or any of that type of crap. I just read and that is basically it.
So am I proud of reading this crap? Not really, but I also really have no problems with it either. Its bad, really bad, and I know it is really bad, but after reading something so heavy, I just needed a break from literature that makes you think.
Eh. C'est La Vie. The boy wizard is coming soon. I'll be onto that anyway. This is just interim stuff.
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