hey' *I*'m musical! [grin] music had nothing to do with the fact that I happened to find those two particular Mccafrey heroines hard to take. Killashandra - although you could find a myriad reasons and excuses for it,if you wanted to - was just so damned UNPLEASANT and ABRASIVE that I just couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to her, in the end.
Part of what I love about McCaffrey (and the old SF) *is* the straightforwardness of the plot.
Well, yes - sure - I liked it too. Sometimes a story IS just a story and that's fine - but I just seem to have grown away from the "garden path" stories, the straightforward ones weaving their way on precise trajectories between carefully cultivated flowerbeds, to the "old woods" tales where there ARE no paths, or more to the point every direction would serve just as well. What can I say - these days I like complicated stuff [grin]
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Date: 2007-05-09 10:03 pm (UTC)Well, yes - sure - I liked it too. Sometimes a story IS just a story and that's fine - but I just seem to have grown away from the "garden path" stories, the straightforward ones weaving their way on precise trajectories between carefully cultivated flowerbeds, to the "old woods" tales where there ARE no paths, or more to the point every direction would serve just as well. What can I say - these days I like complicated stuff [grin]