Monster Bodhisattva

[lyster]

(mirrored from maxgladstone.com)

Recently I picked up Still Life with Crows, a thriller by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, who also wrote the fun Relic and Cabinet of Curiosities and who, really, need no linkage from me. The writing is brisk and doesn't get in your way unless you pay close attention to it (they could stand to reign in their use

Comments

[threedark]

Hooray Monsters.

[lyster]

Nom nom nom.

[holmes_iv]

"rein in."
Nice post, however. :-)

[lyster]

Thanks for catching that. :) Honestly, my homonyms have gone downhill ever since I lived in China. Most of the language has returned, but rein / reign is particularly intractable. Probably because I don't use either of those words often enough... solution: use them more!

[fiore42]

Alternately, we could correct the preposition instead of the verb, and say that he needs to reign over his use of semicolons.

[lyster]

That would actually be a better description of what they need to do, honestly. The semicolons are certainly reigning over Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child in this book.