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A Pen Pen for your Thoughts
This section will just be for, basically random thoughts and feelings. Since my thought process is mostly random you can probably expect this to be updated frequently. Back to Previous Pennys. Back to Pen Penny.
S is for Shut the Hell Up
R is for Ricochet is the newest novel in a series by Sue Grafton, and is sequel to Q is for Quarry, which is sequel to P is for Peril, and if you don’t see some sort of pattern by now, then, for you at least, P is definitely for Problems. Yes, the author started out with A is for Alibi and just kept going with the same trend for some reason, probably partly because she thought it was actually a good and reasonably clever idea, thought being the key word in that sentence.
Now, it is rather strange to start typing about not only one novel but a whole series of novels without actually “reading” them, or “skimming” through them, or even talking to some other person who has “read” them. However, I did read the backs of several of the novels, which gives me an advantage over those who have merely looked at the covers, those cover-lookers are such amateurs, no class at all. And by reading the backs of four or five and halfway through another before I got bored and went to look at anime, I noticed some odd similarities that seem to exist between all of the novels.
It seemed that in most of the novels there was a character whose name began with it’s corresponding letter in the series. For instance, in R is for Ricochet, there is a character named Reba. And in Q is for Quarry there may or may not be someone named Quinn Q. Quinny or something to that effect. I’m not sure if all of the characters names begin with the letter of the novel, but that would probably become confusing at some point, especially with the limitations for naming that letters like “I” or “X” present.
I’ve also coined the term to this type of character naming and it is called “alphabetized naming.” Before you start shouting or asking yourself why or something, I do know the name’s a little confusing, not very descriptive, and very much “off the hook,” but I think what it makes up for in its mysteriousness and vagueness it makes up for in its zestyness and tastiness. Coming back to the realm of similarities that I’ve been talking about for well over a minute about now, there was also some sort of similarity between all the titles, though I couldn’t quite put my finger on it and can‘t quite remember where I was going with this.
Without reading them at all I give these books a good review, mostly just because I want the author to continue writing the series so I get to see what crime-related thing is chosen for “X” and “Z.” Maybe for “Z” the book will be titled Z is for Zoology and will be a suspenseful novel about a zoologist‘s fight against corporate zoos and their attempts to build better sanctuaries for the animals and there will inexplicably be some sort of murder involved as well, perhaps a tiger was found dead with an arrow wound or a monkey was drowned in a paper bag or some other strange and mystery-filled mystery. For “X” it might just be X is for X-ray or something stupid, though X is for Xylophone would be quite an amusing storyline to see pan out. There just aren’t enough xylophone-themed mystery thrillers out there. - 8/2/04
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