Garden of Iden:
I absolutely love the premise
and the amusing anachronistic dialogue.
I'm ok with the prose--
clean, fast,
but a little too much self-consciously chatty Verfremdungseffekt;
maybe it's just my beef with 1st person narrative,
though they be easier to read.
Giving shorty so much power seemed a little self indulgent,
but only because i was identifying the author's style with a friend of mine's.
I did NOT like the overuse of "shit" and under-use of "fuck".
I was not ok with how condescending the characters got when angry: "little shit, little prick, little prat, little brat". Of course the author justified it with their superiority, but it reminded me a little too much of a certain under-5-foot friend who similarly get condescending (difficult for one of such stature) when angry.
In my book, angry people can say (in conjunction with "fuckin") "bitch", "asshole", occasionally "jerk". "Little fuck" is only for non-angry conversation.
Other than that I like the operatives.
But I was not amused by the little girl fantasy quality of this sci-fi novel that turned out to be a romance novel. I absolutely could not stand money, whom the author refused to refer to as Nick.
He was so fucking British, with his height and his broken nose.
Yes, I have a problem.
I hate the British and the Asian women that fawn over their ugliness.
What attracts women to them?
Why is racism so sexy?
I hate myself for being turned on, knowing that British men and women alike will have nothing to do with me.
I of course have no experience here, so I may be misinformed,
but I did read a website of a cute Eurasian man (who looked basically white, maybe a little Keanu Reeves-like; green eyes!) who talked about how European women got off well with him, but the British felt him common.
2007-04-29
Who am I?
I hope my orientation isn't the most interesting aspect of me;
I'm also a New Yorker and Eurasian.
Not the one, but indeed the three unfortunately do seem to encompass my being entirely.
Maybe you'll hafta add in Atheist to really categorize and judge me.
But this label is misleading, because I really act nothing like Penn & Teller.
I hope my orientation isn't the most interesting aspect of me;
I'm also a New Yorker and Eurasian.
Not the one, but indeed the three unfortunately do seem to encompass my being entirely.
Maybe you'll hafta add in Atheist to really categorize and judge me.
But this label is misleading, because I really act nothing like Penn & Teller.
