Dresden Files - White Knight
Aug. 20th, 2008 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo I read all through the Dresden Files books up to White Knight, which is the most recent I have. The most recent the bookshop had in paperback. The cover don't match the others cause those are the US versions and I bought it in a UK bookshop this time instead of on Amazon.
It's okay. There's the usual moments of funny, which are yaay. And plenty of clever stuff with magic. And some politics. And things blowing up. I like things blowing up.
I do not so much like spending that much time in a pov that looks at women that way. The 'I' all the way through makes it more awkward. But it's always women who are apparently made of breasts and legs and being pretty or not being pretty or being different kinds of pretty. There's so much noticing. In the middle of other stuff. Male characters don't get that kind of description unless they're white court vampires, which, then, is threat. So there's just guys talking about women as if they're all made of curvy parts and not as if they're people they could have a conversation with. And then there's the 'cute' and 'girly' comments, which just aren't funny. And the chivalry bit gets annoying. Really, if you're going to respect people, respect *people*. All of them.
Oh, and pretending to be gay for the comedy value then criticising someone else for being a bigot? The line is not drawn where you think it is, writer dude. Is not comedy. Is way to be people. Stereotype comedy of lose.
It could be worse. It's mostly not even a thing. Just reading all the books in a row it's like, yeah, this is a straight guy pov, you can tell from all the 'nubile' stuff.
And even when that stuff is being said so it can be slapped down or demonstrated to be stupid, it's still being said. And I get tired of it.
Other niggly thing? Humans don't have an unused 90% of brain. When Harry says it in previous books it's just a bit :eyeroll: and you end up figuring he studied magic not biology. But in this book it ends up being a plot point, and a spirit of intellect says it. And Harry gets brain damaged, but hey, it's okay, it's in the 90% he's not using.
*facepalm*
Does not work that way. Just... no.
So it's a fun book... and now I want to read something by/about/pov of women to feel like I've got room to move again.
It's okay. There's the usual moments of funny, which are yaay. And plenty of clever stuff with magic. And some politics. And things blowing up. I like things blowing up.
I do not so much like spending that much time in a pov that looks at women that way. The 'I' all the way through makes it more awkward. But it's always women who are apparently made of breasts and legs and being pretty or not being pretty or being different kinds of pretty. There's so much noticing. In the middle of other stuff. Male characters don't get that kind of description unless they're white court vampires, which, then, is threat. So there's just guys talking about women as if they're all made of curvy parts and not as if they're people they could have a conversation with. And then there's the 'cute' and 'girly' comments, which just aren't funny. And the chivalry bit gets annoying. Really, if you're going to respect people, respect *people*. All of them.
Oh, and pretending to be gay for the comedy value then criticising someone else for being a bigot? The line is not drawn where you think it is, writer dude. Is not comedy. Is way to be people. Stereotype comedy of lose.
It could be worse. It's mostly not even a thing. Just reading all the books in a row it's like, yeah, this is a straight guy pov, you can tell from all the 'nubile' stuff.
And even when that stuff is being said so it can be slapped down or demonstrated to be stupid, it's still being said. And I get tired of it.
Other niggly thing? Humans don't have an unused 90% of brain. When Harry says it in previous books it's just a bit :eyeroll: and you end up figuring he studied magic not biology. But in this book it ends up being a plot point, and a spirit of intellect says it. And Harry gets brain damaged, but hey, it's okay, it's in the 90% he's not using.
*facepalm*
Does not work that way. Just... no.
So it's a fun book... and now I want to read something by/about/pov of women to feel like I've got room to move again.