10/3/2000
Come Twilight by Chelsea Quinn Yarbo
[Note – Count
St. German series]
The qualm that S. German fills at
the killing of the goat seems unrelatable.
He may not kill, he takes blood without his partner’s knowledge at
times. He uses their pleasure s to
disguise his blood hunger. One can argue
that he is no more than a parasite. At
least when one kills for flood, one is being open and honest about it.
He also seems disapproving of
Cisceme yet he has not suffered as she has.
He is not a woman. He also seems
to take for granted that partners will be like and would want to become a
vampire. He seems to contradict
himself. If his life was so awful, why
would he want to bring others to it?
Cisceme does seem to have a
point. The Count seems to have embraced
human’s view of him. He sees himself as
cursed far too much. He doesn’t seem to
have accepted who he is.
This book wasn’t Yarbro’s
best. I kept waiting for an actual showdown
with the Count, what the cover hinted at.
Yet, he seemed to just go along with her, to watch. It is more of a study of applying other
vampire myths to the Count.
She was also somewhat lower in
class than his other get as well as a culture he is not familiar with. This seems to be a harsher land as well.
10/9/2000
Johnny and the Bomb
by Terry Pratchett
[Note: Johnny
Maxwell series]
It is nice to know that I’m not the only one
who doesn’t understand time travel movies.
Nice to see the return of Kristy as well as her inactions with the
others of Johnny’s gang.
Swear that Guilty is related to
Nanny Ogg’s cat!
Also it is nice that Kristy remembered
the adventure.
Pratchett is good at taking
serious issues and presenting them in a funny way, but yet meaning something
important.
Thomas the Tank Engine Wallpaper
and a MR. Men lamp! What is it with
Pratchett and Morris Men?
10/10/2000
Bloodstock by John Francome and James MacGregor
Can’t take a novel seriously when it starts,
“He took the spade and started digging.
The Asparagus bed . . . “ too many cliches. The over sexed current girlfriend is too
annoying.
10/10/2000
Smokescreen by Dick Francis [reread]
Totally at a higher level than Bloodstock.
Dandilo does not seem like an American.
His slang seems forced, but that could simply be because the book was
written in 1972. Like the fact that the
golden boy is the bad guy. It is the
opposite of the young rider in Knockdown. It
is a pleasure that this character is happily married. But in the tradition of all Dick Francis
novel, he does have family problems outside the action of the novel, in this
case his daughter’s mental injury. Could
it possibly be a reaction to Mary’s [Note: Dick Francis’ wife] illness
during her pregnancy, a what if so to speak?
Wonder if Dick Francis knows Sean
Connery for Link seems to be a James Bond type of an actor.
Interesting redemption of Even at
the end of the book. Though he does
mention finding the elephants after the rescue of Link. There is that line at the end, “For the first
time, he smiled with a hint of friendship” (253)
End of Journal 1
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