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2006-10-20 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodoRemember my last post?
Well, I finally finished Intelligencer. And what can I say... the book might have been good, if it had just been about Marlowe. But no, the author just had to add the most annoying Self-Insert-Mary-Sue I ever stumbled upon in a real book.
1. She's gorgeous.
2. She solves every problem effortlessly.
3. All the guys have a crush on her.
4. Studying Renaissance literature apparently makes one a good spy.
But of course, that was not enough. We still have
5. The oh so tragic past:
a) Sue had a fiancé.
b) Fiancé was supposedly killed by terrorists in the Himalaya.
c) Sue can't love anybody and because her life is so horribly loveless she wants to do something good for the only thing she still feels attached to, the USA.
d) Daddy (a US Senator) does not want her to join the CIA and asks a friend to give her a job in his more or less CIA-like firm.
and of course:
e) Turns out fiancé has been a top CIA spy who was captured by Iranians in Iraq, tortured there for a few years, and gets saved by someone. But of course, he still suffers from amnesia.
Really, the Marlowe parts were good, but whenever the woman tried to write a female character it was doomed. Unfortunately, about 2/3 of the book was about Sue.
Well, I finally finished Intelligencer. And what can I say... the book might have been good, if it had just been about Marlowe. But no, the author just had to add the most annoying Self-Insert-Mary-Sue I ever stumbled upon in a real book.
1. She's gorgeous.
2. She solves every problem effortlessly.
3. All the guys have a crush on her.
4. Studying Renaissance literature apparently makes one a good spy.
But of course, that was not enough. We still have
5. The oh so tragic past:
a) Sue had a fiancé.
b) Fiancé was supposedly killed by terrorists in the Himalaya.
c) Sue can't love anybody and because her life is so horribly loveless she wants to do something good for the only thing she still feels attached to, the USA.
d) Daddy (a US Senator) does not want her to join the CIA and asks a friend to give her a job in his more or less CIA-like firm.
and of course:
e) Turns out fiancé has been a top CIA spy who was captured by Iranians in Iraq, tortured there for a few years, and gets saved by someone. But of course, he still suffers from amnesia.
Really, the Marlowe parts were good, but whenever the woman tried to write a female character it was doomed. Unfortunately, about 2/3 of the book was about Sue.
