2012-01-08

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2012-01-08 01:53 am
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Slogging away.

Writing going slowly, but I have a Secret Plan to make tomorrow the most productive day I have had in months.  We'll see how that goes.

In my canon review of Alex Rider, I got through Ark Angel, Snakehead, and Crocodile Tears today.  As Ian Fleming pastiches, the novels just get better and better... as novels, they get a bit cliche in places.  Crocodile Tears felt almost entirely like "been there, done that" territory, though it had a few memorable scenes and one genuinely terrifying spot of creative torture.  The others were better -- Scorpia, Ark Angel, & Snakehead really put Alex through the wringer, physically and psychologically, and reading them as a trilogy, they build on one anotehr in very interesting ways.   If anyone else has read them, I'd be very interested in discussing them.