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I stayed up late every day this week reading, despite allergies making me tired all day. The frustrating thing is, the book (The Child Thief) wasn't that good. With most grimmified fairy tales, the issue is generic darkness, an obsession with fitting in small details. That was not the The Child Thief's problem. I think it's problem was that it was written by a guy who's dayjob is in graphic arts: fucking fantastic setting, the seed of a very good plot, but so-so writing that was unable to properly convey the emotions he was going for.

I think good idea/bad writing may actually be the worst combination for getting to sleep in a timely manner. If the writing is bad, there's no never any point at which I stop and go "wow, that was good. I feel satisified". I just keep going because I want to know what happens (or in this case, the backstory). In conclusion, I want someone else to take the ideas of The Child Thief and rewrite them in a more competent fashion, and the fact that The Child Thief is itself a retelling of Peter Pan does not change this.

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me: i'm in the eternal "get a class of water" versus "disturbing the cat" dilemna
Jeff: I hear that.
Your cats won't mind.
They're bred and selected not to mind.
Like that cow in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who was engineered to want to be eaten.