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Oct. 31st, 2006 02:56 pmSo I've finished the third book, The Mammoth Hunters, and well... The main characters are all really overwrought, aren't they?
I mean, I can't begin to count the moments one character or the other laments their woe to themselves. It's not that I'm inherently against melodrama, and I can buy some mutual misunderstanding lasting for a bit especially with their cultural differences, but this was ridiculous. And worse, it was boring-- surely showing them despairing two or three times would have sufficed? The only good point was that even all the other characters noticed. It reached the point where I even started to hope for more of the purple prose sex scenes, because then at least briefly the characters wouldn't be wailing woefully about how much the other surely hates them, though unfortunately that started up again very soon every time. OTOH if they hadn't miscommunictated for hundreds of pages they probably would have really had far more sex, so there was an upside.
Obviously there were lots of engaging parts too, that kept me interested, or I wouldn't have stuck with it for over seven hundred pages, but I just wanted to slap them all a lot.
I mean, I can't begin to count the moments one character or the other laments their woe to themselves. It's not that I'm inherently against melodrama, and I can buy some mutual misunderstanding lasting for a bit especially with their cultural differences, but this was ridiculous. And worse, it was boring-- surely showing them despairing two or three times would have sufficed? The only good point was that even all the other characters noticed. It reached the point where I even started to hope for more of the purple prose sex scenes, because then at least briefly the characters wouldn't be wailing woefully about how much the other surely hates them, though unfortunately that started up again very soon every time. OTOH if they hadn't miscommunictated for hundreds of pages they probably would have really had far more sex, so there was an upside.
Obviously there were lots of engaging parts too, that kept me interested, or I wouldn't have stuck with it for over seven hundred pages, but I just wanted to slap them all a lot.