The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[Karellen]

Yea, I don't understand Graphic Novels either. I purchased one (pbook version from Amazon), not knowing it was a graphic novel. I thought it was a new book in a series I was following. Anyway, read it in about 6 minutes, and sat there wondering WTF was that??

And yesterday wandering through Dymocks, I noticed Dune graphic novels. Grrrr....

[Renate]

I read "Fun House", Alison Bechdel, a graphic novel.
I would have preferred straight prose.

[andyh2000]

Don't buy and read them then?

[ownedbycats]

Fun cliches in cozy mysteries:

- A cat/dog featuring prominently on the cover but is barely mentioned in the story.

- A generic Hot Cop for the female protagonist to fall in love with.

- Crazy people. (Sometimes it's the protagonist.)

- During the inevitable confrontation at the end, the murderer stops trying to kill the protagonist and instead starts blabbing about their motives, resulting in the protagonist recording it/figuring out a way to escape/the Hot Cop showing up in the nick of the time.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Fun cliches in cozy mysteries:

- A cat/dog featuring prominently on the cover but is barely mentioned in the story.

- A generic Hot Cop for the female protagonist to fall in love with.

- Crazy people. (Sometimes it's the protagonist.)

- During the inevitable confrontation at the end, the murderer stops trying to kill the protagonist and instead starts blabbing about their motives, resulting in the protagonist recording it/figuring out a way to escape/the Hot Cop showing up in the nick of the time.

With a cat and dog too, I assume.
Apache

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Fun cliches in cozy mysteries:

- A cat/dog featuring prominently on the cover but is barely mentioned in the story.

- A generic Hot Cop for the female protagonist to fall in love with.

- Crazy people. (Sometimes it's the protagonist.)

- During the inevitable confrontation at the end, the murderer stops trying to kill the protagonist and instead starts blabbing about their motives, resulting in the protagonist recording it/figuring out a way to escape/the Hot Cop showing up in the nick of the time.

The last cliche often appears in not-cozy mysteries too, unfortunately.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Apache

With a cat and dog too, I assume.
Apache

With moose and squirrel!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Yea, I don't understand Graphic Novels either. I purchased one (pbook version from Amazon), not knowing it was a graphic novel. I thought it was a new book in a series I was following. Anyway, read it in about 6 minutes, and sat there wondering WTF was that??

And yesterday wandering through Dymocks, I noticed Dune graphic novels. Grrrr....

A graphic novel is a comic book in a book format.

We don't need novel series to have comic books added to them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Don't buy and read them then?

The problem is that these comic books can spoil the series as novels that come after sometimes reference the comic book (s) and you then can have no idea what it is being talked about because you've not read the comic book(s).

If they are going to do comic books, make then not at all part of the novel series.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

With moose and squirrel!

The villains supposedly being very bad and good at what they do, but int he story, they are made out to be idiots.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

The last cliche often appears in not-cozy mysteries too, unfortunately.

And the Hardy Boys, but without the Hot Cop.
In the Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, the cop is the sleuth's brother-in-law and eats too many chocolate donuts to be hot, but he has a new "hot" boss/Senior partner later.

[ownedbycats]

I read the first book of a series and it was good. So I end up getting the full series omnibus when it goes on sale but the later books just turn to 'WTF I wish I had not continued.'

[issybird]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I read the first book of a series and it was good. So I end up getting the full series omnibus when it goes on sale but the later books just turn to 'WTF I wish I had not continued.'

What always annoys me about long series, and I have only myself to blame, is that I don't abandon them soon enough. I read at least a book or two before I realize that I'm over it.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by issybird

What always annoys me about long series, and I have only myself to blame, is that I don't abandon them soon enough. I read at least a book or two before I realize that I'm over it.

Or the author should have "finished" it off.

See also Hollywood so-called Franchises / sequels.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Or the author should have "finished" it off.

See also Hollywood so-called Franchises / sequels.

There are some series where they should have stopped after the first book.