Rankin' Rankin

[raisindot]

Right now I'm almost at the end of Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls.

It's pretty good, even if I don't know the full backstory of Soap and Pooley.

I'm also slogging through Waiting for Goldalming, which I'm just about to give up on. It's soooo disjointed and self-consciously "metafiction" that it's nearly unreadable.

J-I-B

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Yes he went through a period where things were not going that great and it showed a bit but I know some people who liked it.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

I've just re-read Godalming.

In fact I've re-read most of my Rankin/Pratchet books over the last 4 days whilst being snowed in!!

 

[deldaisy]

Right now I'm almost at the end of Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls.

It's pretty good, even if I don't know the full backstory of Soap and Pooley.

I'm also slogging through Waiting for Goldalming, which I'm just about to give up on. It's soooo disjointed and self-consciously "metafiction" that it's nearly unreadable.

J-I-B

Curious....

When AC/DC sing "Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll" in America.... does everyone sing "Its a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll" like we always did here in Oz?

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Had some time to spare yesterday in Amsterdam, so visited some bookshops. Found Apocalypso in a secondhand bookshop
The book went home with me

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Right now I'm almost at the end of Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls.

It's pretty good, even if I don't know the full backstory of Soap and Pooley.

I'm also slogging through Waiting for Goldalming, which I'm just about to give up on. It's soooo disjointed and self-consciously "metafiction" that it's nearly unreadable.

J-I-B

Curious....

When AC/DC sing "Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll" in America.... does everyone sing "Its a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll" like we always did here in Oz?

You're a very strange woman!!

 

[raisindot]

Now I'm reading "Necrophenia" (Obviously, a "Who" pun).

It was okay, not incredibly original, recycling the usual rock and roll themes, but actually quite readable UNTIL---

Halfway through he brings in yet another Lazlo Woodbine section. Again. And we're off to 20 pages of totally useless, page-filling drivel. I skipped all of it. Totally unreadable. I don't care if it makes the rest of the plot even more incomprehensible than it already is. Why does Rankin DO these things? Does he really think this is funny or innovative or "metafictional"? He really does need a strong editor to keep him from giving in to his obvious self-indulgence.

J-I-B

 

[Bouncy Castle]

I love Rankin, but I have to agree that the Woodbine stuff is pretty crappy.

 

[poohcarrot]

I love Rankin, but I have to agree that the Woodbine stuff is pretty crappy.

You're kidding, right?

Let's go Woodchuck is brilliant! He should do a whole book solely with Lip Gold Wood Nymph. Talking the toot with Fangio is hilarious.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Let's go Woodchuck is brilliant! He should do a whole book solely with Lip Gold Wood Nymph.

You've lost me, mate.

Talking the toot with Fangio is hilarious.

It's an old tradition.................

 

[poohcarrot]

Let's go Woodchuck is brilliant! He should do a whole book solely with Lip Gold Wood Nymph.

You've lost me, mate.

People always get Lazlo's name wrong. I was using the same running gag.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

That I got, it was the nymph thing that lost my tiny mind.

 

[poohcarrot]

Wood louse
Wood chuck
Wooden leg
Wood Nymph.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/wood-nymph

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Ahhhh.

'Scuse me. I'm off to The Swan for a Pint of Large, and a chat with the one eyed barman.

 

[raisindot]

I love Rankin, but I have to agree that the Woodbine stuff is pretty crappy.

You're kidding, right?

Let's go Woodchuck is brilliant! He should do a whole book solely with Lip Gold Wood Nymph. Talking the toot with Fangio is hilarious.

Haven't read that one, and now that you've warned me about it I'll avoid it like the plague. The Woodbine stuff is pure drivel. Hardboiled detective genre parodies have been passe for decades (twenty years ago I had my own parody published, a short story about a tick that had attached itself to the skull of a typical hardboiled private dick. The tick solves the case by feeding its insights into its host's blood) and are the last resort of writers who have run out of original ideas. Which Rankin seems to have done in his more recent books. Fortunately, I'm borrowing a whole bunch more from some of the older ones from area libraries. Alas, none have any of the complete 'series' but they'll do.

J-I-B

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

or a charter or something.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Indeed.

I think my favourite is The Brightonomicon. The thing with Fangio's hats was brilliant.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Ahhhh.

'Scuse me. I'm off to The Swan for a Pint of Large, and a chat with the one eyed barman.

Watch out for old Pete's dog, don't let him stand next to you Bouncy.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Waterproof trousers, mate!!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

and steel capped boots for the proverbal swift kick in its nuts.