Reading Update #41

[desertvixen]

 This one is titled, Books You Shouldn't Read.

 Now, as people may know, I dispose of books that don't float my boat through two channels.

 The first is a good UBS (used book store) up in Columbia, SC, near Fort Jackson.  It's a little over an hour away, but it's fairly reliable.  They'll take PBs and TPBs without too much hassle.

 The other, mostly for non-PBs, is Amazon.  I take the payment in Amazon GCs, thereby enabling me to buy...more books.

 However, sometimes I can't sell a TPB on Amazon because too many other people are selling it for a pittance.  That's usually my key that I wasn't the only one who thought it sucked.

 Pemberly, by Emma Tennant, looked and sounded really good.  It sounded like it was going to be in the same vein as The Dinner Party from A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold, only over the Christmas holidays.  No dice.

 I couldn't get into the plot or the characters.

 Don't recommend it unless you have nothing else to read.  And I do mean NOTHING else.

 DV

Comments

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

I almost picked it up a week or so ago, you make me glad I didn't.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

It looks good. It sounds good. And it's just not.

Elizabeth is, well, stupid. Still harboring doubts about Darcy, jumping to conclusions. Darcy does not help, by not telling her things and leaving her with the distinct impression that he's pissed at her (like cancelling a children's choir thing because there's influenza in the village, but doesn't tell her why) and driving me up the wall. Jane is presented as pretty sane, but she's about the only one, besides her husband. I was sort of looking forward to Lady Catherine vs. Mrs. Bennett, but not so much.

There was also a time thing that seemed wrong - they had Lydia with four kids in four years, but the Darcys had only been married for a year.

Lastly, the Elizabeth-stressing-about-an-heir-to-Pemberly strain is flipping annoying. It's been overdone a bit much, thanks.

DV