Locked Rooms

[prof_pangaea]

I finally got Locked Rooms from the library yesterday (there were many middle-aged women in line for the book before me, it seems), and finished it today. My (very brief) thoughts below, as I have to get ready for class. There will be more, OH SO MUCH MORE, when I have the time.



Mary: *is an idiot*
Holmes: *is omniscient*
Narrative Device: *is clunky and distracting*
Dashiell Hammet: *is random and senseless historical cameo character*
Me: WTF??
Dialogue Between Holmes and Hammet: *is bad. Very bad*
Every Other Cameo Character: *is wise and understanding*
Laurie R. King: *makes terrible, TERRIBLE reference to The Maltese Falcon*
Me: *is horrified, calls cesario out of insanity*
Cesario: *laughs maniacally*
Plot: *is pointless*
Me: GAH



I need to go finish reading the decision in Marbury v. Madison now.

Comments

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Ahem. We aren't acquainted, but I haven't even read the book yet (yes, it's still sitting on my nighttable - excuse of new infant, &c.) and your criticism seems to be apt, from what I know of excerpts.

I've been slightly disappointed in every book save for the first two, for the reasons you mention, and also because I see the Sherlock Holmes stories as quintessentially English and I want to see MORE of those stories, not Travel!Holmes and Linguist!Russell - those plots seem to me to make her even more Sueish than usual.

Look forward to your fics in which Everyone Is Punished Soundly. Heh.