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Comments for Bimbos of the Death Sun
Bimbos of the Death Sun: 01/03/07
Parody is hard to write and yet lots of people try their hands at it. Bimbos of the Death Sun purports to be a murder-mystery parody of a sci-fi/fantasy convention. All the stereotypes are there: the obese and desperate women, the pimply geeky fan-boys who forget to eat, the gamers who can't face reality and of course the obnoxious author who is appalling and yet loved by all. In a word: boring!
At the heart of the story is the newly published engineering professor who is too embarrassed by his success to admit it. He's so unlike any science professor I've ever met to be a complete distraction and detraction from the book. He's supposed to be the likeable character in the book but he's so two-dimensional and so far removed from reality that I didn't care what he did, said, thought or felt.
Finally at just past the halfway point of this train wreck of a book there is a murder. It comes so late in the book that there isn't any time to give it a good investigation or to even make it a coherent piece of the plot. There is more time spent on the description of the role playing game at the end of the book than to the resolution of the mystery. If I want to read transcribed games, I'll suffer through Weis and Hickman!
Winter Weather:
Our first two nights home have been very cold. Monday night I shivered in bed until sometime after two in the morning when I finally warmed up enough to sleep.
Last night I took as hot a shower as I could to warm up before heading to bed. The shower helped a great deal and I was able to fall asleep quickly (after enjoying a few pages of Kim by Rudyard Kipling). Ian stayed up later than I did to take a hot bath. In between the time I fell asleep and Ian came to bed, Caligula did her part by crawling under the sheets. She stayed with us the for the entire night.
Over the course of today the temperature has warmed up and clouds have moved in. As the pressure dropped Ian and I (and probably Harriet guessing from her frowns) got horrible sinus headaches. Ian has the added problem of a cold he caught over the holidays. He's so congested.
After sunset it started to rain. It's been raining on and off since then.
Steps: 5000