Linkspam wants to go back on vacation

[cofax7]

Torque Control has a roundup of reviews of Jay Lake's novel Green. The responses are all across the map, I have to say, but I'm... dubious. I've only read two Lake novels, and the second one, Mindspring, was so distasteful and unthinking in its presentation of Smart White Guy Dealing With Noble Savages, complete with a fairly dodgy cross-species

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[katie_m]

The manpain chart is awesome. As Eli mentioned in her LJ, we watched the first bit of the pilot of NCIS:LA just to see the astonishing amount of slashy manpain, and it was really hilarious. The Chris O'Donnell character was SERIOUSLY INJURED, shot in the line of duty! And he's living out of two bags, drifting from place to place! And he's an ORPHAN! And he never ever got a birthday card in his life! And he only goes by an initial BECAUSE HE DOESN'T KNOW HIS WHOLE NAME!

And LL Cool J loves him and wants him to be happy.

Seriously, it was the most amazing fangirl bait I'd ever seen.

[cofax7]

He has no NAME? Oh, that's just fantastic.

Heee!

[eregyrn]

He only has an INITIAL! Nobody ever told him what it stood for! Waaaaah!!!!

[veejane]

Dude should consider looking into the Freedom of Information Act. As an agent of the government, surely he did not flunk that class has the foggiest idea about disclosure laws.

(Also, aren't all birth certificates in California online? Isn't that how they figured out that Spike was actually 10 years older than he claimed to be?)

[nestra]

And he only goes by an initial BECAUSE HE DOESN'T KNOW HIS WHOLE NAME!

That is AWESOME.

[veejane]

I am not REALLY NOT sorry I missed that.

[katie_m]

You would have had no patience for Dude With No Name, it's true.