Grrr...
I wish I'd told my cashier off yesterday. I got my first break pick me up, a snickers and diet Dr Pepper, and she lectured me that it's not healthy and I should be eating fruit and veg. I was mad. She has no idea the changes I've been making in my eating - all the milk, yogurt, veg and fruit I've been adding. I was pissed and wish I'd given her the potato lecture. If an 18 year old comes through your line with toy handcuffs, vasiline, and condoms, they're potatoes and you react accordingly (that happened to me several years ago and I so wanted to tell him water based lube is better for her health, but then I wouldn't be treating them like potatoes, would I?). If a 500 pound guy in an electric cart comes through your line with three dozen donuts, they're potatoes and you react accordingly. If I come through your line with anything you don't talk to me about my purchases.
So I glared at her and she apologized and said she was just joking. I knew that, she's one of those people who thinks because she can remember my name, we're friends. The truth is all I know about her from our sparse conversations is she thinks I should read Anita Blake, Vampire Humper and she doesn't know who PG Wodehouse or HP Lovecraft are.
Speaking of contemporary vampire lit, I got 'Dead Until Dawn' for Christmas. It's the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, which the HBO series True Blood is based off of. I've been wanting it because a vampire mystery series does sound refreshing, but I don't get how it's much of a mystery series when the main character can read minds. It will be interesting to see how that's handled.
But I can tell I'll have to be forgiving of the first person POV. It's told from Sookie's POV and we get a big explanation from her about how hot she it. She's all like 'I have blond hair, blue eyes, a great ass, round and perky breasts. I look great in the slutty outfits my boss has us wear.' Then she falls into an annoying series of one sentence paragraphs. I'm like, "What? Who talks about themselves that way?"
But I can only think of three series and two books that I like that are written in first person. PG Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster is a joy to read in the first person. He has a certain what's-it about him. I love Robert Asprin's MYTH series narrated by Skeeve. Skeeve is a complicated character for being in such an irreverent comedy series and it's fun to see how success changes him. The third series is the Monk book series, which is narrated by Natalie Teeger. She can get on my nerves once in a while, but it's fun to see Mr. Monk through her eyes.
The two novels that come to mind aren't comedies. One is 'The Lord of Darkness' by Robert Silverberg, which is based off the true plight of Andrew Battell (sp?), an English sailor who was imprisoned in French Africa. A very sketchy memoir was published about his ordeal, so Silverberg decided to fill in the blanks and add cannibals. Cannibals make everything better. The other book is 'The Basic Eight' by Daniel Handler, which has to be told in the first person because of the surprise!ending, which I saw coming halfway through the book, but it was still a good read.
And this is a terribly random post, which I'll end now.
So I glared at her and she apologized and said she was just joking. I knew that, she's one of those people who thinks because she can remember my name, we're friends. The truth is all I know about her from our sparse conversations is she thinks I should read Anita Blake, Vampire Humper and she doesn't know who PG Wodehouse or HP Lovecraft are.
Speaking of contemporary vampire lit, I got 'Dead Until Dawn' for Christmas. It's the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, which the HBO series True Blood is based off of. I've been wanting it because a vampire mystery series does sound refreshing, but I don't get how it's much of a mystery series when the main character can read minds. It will be interesting to see how that's handled.
But I can tell I'll have to be forgiving of the first person POV. It's told from Sookie's POV and we get a big explanation from her about how hot she it. She's all like 'I have blond hair, blue eyes, a great ass, round and perky breasts. I look great in the slutty outfits my boss has us wear.' Then she falls into an annoying series of one sentence paragraphs. I'm like, "What? Who talks about themselves that way?"
But I can only think of three series and two books that I like that are written in first person. PG Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster is a joy to read in the first person. He has a certain what's-it about him. I love Robert Asprin's MYTH series narrated by Skeeve. Skeeve is a complicated character for being in such an irreverent comedy series and it's fun to see how success changes him. The third series is the Monk book series, which is narrated by Natalie Teeger. She can get on my nerves once in a while, but it's fun to see Mr. Monk through her eyes.
The two novels that come to mind aren't comedies. One is 'The Lord of Darkness' by Robert Silverberg, which is based off the true plight of Andrew Battell (sp?), an English sailor who was imprisoned in French Africa. A very sketchy memoir was published about his ordeal, so Silverberg decided to fill in the blanks and add cannibals. Cannibals make everything better. The other book is 'The Basic Eight' by Daniel Handler, which has to be told in the first person because of the surprise!ending, which I saw coming halfway through the book, but it was still a good read.
And this is a terribly random post, which I'll end now.