My eyes... they burn... - but so does my central heating, thank Cthulhu!

[ffutures]

For various reasons I happened to glance at an online extract from the "authorised" posthumous Saint novel Capture The Saint.

Somehow I doubt that Charteris would have given the ponderous writing his approval. As for the dialogue... Well, let's just say that the author isn't Charteris and leave it at that.

Less than impressed.

But at least my central heating has been fixed (at least for now, it'll need more work when they can obtain a part that's needed) and will work provided I don't let the pressure drop too low. The bit that was done today took approximately ten minutes, most of it time opening and shutting the casing, disconnecting one wire, and waiting to make sure it's coming on properly. Snag is that if I run it on a normal day-night cycle it'll need to be manually repressured twice a day, so I'm going to have to leave it on continuously and turn the temperature down at night and when I'm out. Not a big deal in the holidays, I'm in most of the time.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Did you ever encounter any of the novelisation for Catwoman? Somebody on my f-list posted a collection of extracts, and it was quite the most remarkable thing I have ever seen.

One does not expect great things from novelisations. But this pretty much redefined my standards, and made me think that maybe those Buffy tie-in novels aren't that bad after all.

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Nah, the Buffy tie-ins are still dreadful.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Where they worse than Avon: A Terrible Aspect (Blake's 7 tie-in perpetrated by the actor who played Avon in the series)? I think that's the worst book I've ever read.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

There were blakes 7 tie-ins!?

I had no idea. Oh gosh, they must have been scary.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I never read the Catwoman books - never saw the film either.

Funny thing is that some of the Angel adaptations aren't unbearably bad. But I agree, all Buffy novelisations suck.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

No, I've not seen or read it either. THough I was very briefly tempted once when somebody told me the relationship between Halle Berry's character and Sharon Stone's was quite femslashy. But I went and watched an episode of Birds Of Prey instead. That always satisfies my lesbian superhero needs.

I can't say that I've ever read any of the Angel ones, the Gatekeeper Trilogy was the final straw for me and any tv tie-in novelisation ever.

Och, I flicked through an Alias novel in the library the other day. Didn't read much. But ye gods, bad fanfic territory. The worst.

The horror.