The Further Adventures of Mighty Wang and Busty Boy-Girl

[meganbmoore]

I have been fed.  I have chocolate.  I have checked the f-list and noted the shameless linking.

I will now "read" the second half.

Post to be updated until I finish.

ETA 1:

Now that she has found the scalps, Busty BG has decided that she's being forced to bend to Mighty Wang's every whim and objects to him expecting her to wear the clothes she was

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I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one.

[smillaraaq]

Funny what a trunk full of scalps will do to a person.

This is the most delightful phrase I have encountered since "RAISED BY PIGEONS". Alas, it is perhaps a bit unwieldy to add to the Interests list...

Now again with food. (I mean, seriously, extreme detail and food serving that doesn't fit the narrative at all.)

Yeah, that big chunk of food-and-table-manners has already been confirmed as another rip from Parker (and now I'm craving hominy soup, damnit!). I'm a little curious about your note of a much earlier passage on food, though -- there's one note for a rip about food being served back at the start of the book, but nothing about the menu. If there is any mention of specific foods in that passage it's already sounding like something that will demand particularly close scrutiny. *makes a note*

Anyway, Mighty Wang decides gory mythology talk is the perfect foreplay.

But no passionate natural history pillow talk? RIPOFF! How's that poor girl supposed to get all hot and bothered without spicy, spicy talk about weasels?

She

Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one.

[meganbmoore]

"that big chunk of food-and-table-manners has already been confirmed as another rip from Parker (and now I'm craving hominy soup, damnit!). I'm a little curious about your note of a much earlier passage on food, though -- there's one note for a rip about food being served back at the start of the book"

Ah...uhm...shoot. I noted so much I've forgotten a lot of it. Did I quote it or just mention it?

"How's that poor girl supposed to get all hot and bothered without spicy, spicy talk about weasels?"

The same actually went through my head...

"OK, this bit? There is CLEARLY a huge missing scene that got lost in translation or something. I can guarantee that what's going through Mighty Wang's mind at that point is something to the effect of "hot damn, I can't believe she's actually BUYING this bullcrap. Everything they said about white chicks is true; if I marry her, I'll never have to fear living with a bossy wife and bossier mother-in-law ever again! No wonder dad's so jealous."It's...really exactly like I laid it out. Her books

Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one.

[smillaraaq]

Did I quote it or just mention it?

Mentioned in passing. Just going by the stuff in the SBTB files, the one other passage they note about food being served is back in the same section where she's also plagiarized the detailed description of the decorations on the pottery, and the the only food passage cited there is one where Mighty Wang is dishing out some stew. Oh, hey, and look, two pages before that there's a quote from a bit where someone is telling her the most important rule she has to remember is not to go snooping into someone's private things! Guess Shawndee AND the author both forgot that helpful well before the end of the book.

If anyone ever doubts my love for them, I shall point to this tag.

Well, I can throw in recipes for modernized versions of the hominy soup and boiled corn bread everybody's going NOM NOM NOM over back around in the endless food-plagiarism scene. But frankly, that's the sort of thing that if you didn't grow up on it, you'd probably be happier just sticking with the trade beads...

Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one.

[meganbmoore]

Hmmmm...I think maybe the other was the corn husks thing...I caught one part, but not another.

I believe something like "pigeons bookmark" was mentioned...

[fairest1]

. . . that lodge is going to be completely destroyed in the first flood next spring.

Mighty Wang reminds me of Zeus in his approach to seduction. Though gory mythology talk is still better than telling your wife "You are soo much better than all the women I cheated on you with!" and going into a detailed list.

[meganbmoore]

The lodge was a holy sanctuary for the clan, where they went to cleanse themself of the world or something.

Hmmm...yes, that is preferable to the alternative. However, this was also within 3 days of his abducting her and holding her at knifepoint...

[fairest1]

I still say it sounds like it wouldn't survive the first flood. Maybe it's kept under control by a clensing stream that runs through it. Or something.

Ah, right. At least Hera could put the smackdown on the bitches who seduced her husband. Or make his illegitmate offspring go batshit and kill their families.

[meganbmoore]

I suspect she saw the description in a book and liked it.

I've always sided with Hera, actually. It's not her fault her husband was a slut.

[dangermousie]

Lady, you are a Saint, reading this so we won't have to. I laughed so hard reading this.

This was my fave:

Dad dies. They grieve by having another sex-a-thon.

Very respectful of them.

[meganbmoore]

Dad's death is even better: Dad went on and on about how Mighty Wang shouldn't marry a white women, Busty BG ran off sobbing, then Dad told Mighty Wang to beg forgiveness for him, Mighty Wang dragged her back, and Dad croaked.

"Lady, you are a Saint, reading this so we won't have to. I laughed so hard reading this."

I was possibly forced to wander around, clutching Loretta Chase, Connie Brockway, and Marsha Canham books at one point.