all kinds of blah

[flambeau]

This is very peculiar. I'm reading a Wodehouse novel I've never read before, and it's boring me. I didn't know that could even happen. It's The Coming of Bill, which was first published in 1919 (in the US, under the title Their Mutual Child, for completists), and it's... strangely dull. I'm vaguely concerned about the poor child in the sterilized

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[halimede]

but I changed my mind on the fifth one

Ack! Fic Interruptus! {sulks} <--in an understanding, supportive way. Mostly. ;)

[flambeau]

{sulks} <--in an understanding, supportive way

That's quite a feat. :) Anyway, consider it justified self-censorship.

[wemblee]

Okay. I know we don't know each other. (Although I think I sent you a happy LoC about one of your J/W stories.) But -- dude. You read Wodehouse and you own Timbre. That's just so cool! Bless you, Sophie, for the beautiful bonus disc. ::happy sigh::

[flambeau]

It is lovely, isn't it? :) And most of the time, so is Wodehouse, only just now he has me all confuzzled with his un-funniness. I decree that this must stop. stop!

[wemblee]

(Latest reply in the universe.) Wodehouse? Unfunny? What? Where?

[flambeau]

I think I've got you beat on that latest reply in the universe thing... anyway, I think The Coming of Bill is unfunny, and afrai says Damsel in Distress is, too. Though I expect it depends on one's sense of humor. :)

[hampden]

Did you get your invitation for the next meeting of Wibblers Anonymous?

Since both complaining at poor Remus' treatment at your hands and trying to trade in my icon IOUs have failed to yield results, any chance of a snuggle fic if I moan that it's cold, dark, blowy and I don't have an open fire?

[flambeau]

aw! I think the fluffy R/S would qualify very well if it would just get moving and go somewhere. I'll work on it. :)

[afrai]

I'm reading a Wodehouse novel I've never read before, and it's boring me.

That's happened to me before. It was a terrible experience (not the book, but the experience of being bored by Wodehouse -- ack!), but what's really scaring me is that it wasn't the same book as the one that's boring you. Maybe he wasn't feeling well when he was writing them?

[flambeau]

That must be it. He had some bad oysters or something. (Which one was it that bored you?)

[afrai]

Damsel in Distress. It wasn't precisely bad, but it was weirdly serious in bits, and definitely not up to Plum's usual standard.

[flambeau]

Huh. Never read that one, but yeah, "weirdly serious" seems to be the problem with the ones that haven't clicked with me. It's as though he tried, a few times, to write a "normal" book, and then just said the hell with it and set the absurdity free. :)