Not the best of days
Sep. 26th, 2008 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbAchievements:
Running: Mile in 8.75 minutes, and after that, suckage. 2 miles in 21 minutes, 2.5 miles in 30 minutes.
Miles treadmilled since 10-09-08: 29.75
I'll have to get support for my ankle, since ankle pain was a major contributary factor in the suckage. I hate that.
Climbing: Spent about an hour bouldering, because there was no one there to top-rope with. It sucked, because I was looking forward to getting out of my own head, and I didn't really get to do that. I did, however, notice some technical improvement.
Another piece of suckage: Max Allan Collins, Criminal Minds: Killer Profile.
Anyone out there who likes Criminal Minds and thinks one of Collins' tie-in novels might fill a hole between episodes? Save yourself, and put all thought of it from your mind.
I mean it.
This book - the first two chapters, which are all I managed, and I only managed that out of a sense of utter unbelief - is bad. Head-hopping. Clunky sentences. Auctorial heavy-handedness to the tune of I will tell you everything about this scene including what you are supposed to think of it. Bad writing. First, second and third order clichés. POV problems.
Bad fanfic is better than this. Bad Garcia/Rossi fanfic is better than this, because at least in fanfic, the writer has an emotional investment in the characters, themes and topoi.
You know that thing that CM does so well on screen, getting the point across by ellision, misdirection, allusion, white space, everything that isn't said, doing it with style and grace and assuming the viewer is smart enough to keep up?
Yeah, well. You won't find it in this.
I've read tie-in novels for Star Trek, Star Wars, and Stargate. Star Trek ones seem to be directed at twelve-year-olds, much like the thing itself - it was never really my scene, but as YA, it mostly didn't actually fail as such. Star Wars has had some truly terrible tie-ins, and some truly excellent ones (Zahn, Stover, Williams, Traviss): a number of authors who've done work there have won critical acclaim for their other novels. Stargate's tie-in novels seem to be written primarily by and for fans, and while varying in technical competance (although some of them are quite good indeed) remain very close to the feel of the show.
Criminal Minds: Killer Profile fails on pretty much every level I can think of. And I say that as someone, who, as a fan of the show came to it prepared to forgive it some flaws, if it delivered a reasonably satisfying episode-like experience.
Running: Mile in 8.75 minutes, and after that, suckage. 2 miles in 21 minutes, 2.5 miles in 30 minutes.
Miles treadmilled since 10-09-08: 29.75
I'll have to get support for my ankle, since ankle pain was a major contributary factor in the suckage. I hate that.
Climbing: Spent about an hour bouldering, because there was no one there to top-rope with. It sucked, because I was looking forward to getting out of my own head, and I didn't really get to do that. I did, however, notice some technical improvement.
Another piece of suckage: Max Allan Collins, Criminal Minds: Killer Profile.
Anyone out there who likes Criminal Minds and thinks one of Collins' tie-in novels might fill a hole between episodes? Save yourself, and put all thought of it from your mind.
I mean it.
This book - the first two chapters, which are all I managed, and I only managed that out of a sense of utter unbelief - is bad. Head-hopping. Clunky sentences. Auctorial heavy-handedness to the tune of I will tell you everything about this scene including what you are supposed to think of it. Bad writing. First, second and third order clichés. POV problems.
Bad fanfic is better than this. Bad Garcia/Rossi fanfic is better than this, because at least in fanfic, the writer has an emotional investment in the characters, themes and topoi.
You know that thing that CM does so well on screen, getting the point across by ellision, misdirection, allusion, white space, everything that isn't said, doing it with style and grace and assuming the viewer is smart enough to keep up?
Yeah, well. You won't find it in this.
I've read tie-in novels for Star Trek, Star Wars, and Stargate. Star Trek ones seem to be directed at twelve-year-olds, much like the thing itself - it was never really my scene, but as YA, it mostly didn't actually fail as such. Star Wars has had some truly terrible tie-ins, and some truly excellent ones (Zahn, Stover, Williams, Traviss): a number of authors who've done work there have won critical acclaim for their other novels. Stargate's tie-in novels seem to be written primarily by and for fans, and while varying in technical competance (although some of them are quite good indeed) remain very close to the feel of the show.
Criminal Minds: Killer Profile fails on pretty much every level I can think of. And I say that as someone, who, as a fan of the show came to it prepared to forgive it some flaws, if it delivered a reasonably satisfying episode-like experience.
