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beccaelizabethI started rereading Terry Brooks
Magic Kingdom For Sale Sold
and immediately discovered I have retained very little of this and am now finding it *very* annoying.
I think the only women with words so far are receptionists, and I am over 150 pages in.
I keep stopping and staring into space for a bit thinking
okay but if even one woman was in the room right now and able to speak
this would be a very different story.
Also: I am not buying this guy as a lawyer, corporate or otherwise. He doesn't ask any questions about this Kingdom's laws, or the sort of questions that would be asked of a business theoretically being sold as a going concern. He has not once wondered what kind of treaties it might be bound by, even when he was quite certain it was simply up a mountain somewhere. He didn't think to look up if America has a pre existing relationship with Landover. He does nothing researchy whatsoever.
He does however take his boxing gloves and keep doing speeches about how the law binds everyone
without actually looking up how the law binds everyone
even when that has varied wildly even within British history let alone the continent.
What does King actually mean? It is a legally defined role as per the speeches he is giving but he has not looked up the legal definitions! And we're staying with him tightly, there's no 'Ben spent some time in the law library and had a good think about what he read there' possible to insert in the timeline.
He did not ask under which jurisdiction the contract he signed would be valid, despite it dealing with more than one US State!
I just cannot believe in this character.
I keep on stopping to wonder what the character he was stated to be in the beginning would actually do and it gets frustrating.
Also! He just got asked to make a marriage alliance and turned it down on the spot. But he didn't actually ask what inheritance laws apply or what marriage would mean or ANYthing. And that's all somewhat crucial here!
He has bought the Kingdom as if the throne can possibly be for sale, but the throne keeps reverting to the original sellers. So what kind of sales law is applying and how can it mesh with inheritance law?
And I just looked up the definition of Atheling again - as you do - and was three wiki clicks away from a sort of inheritance law that says family can buy back land that was sold to non family, at the original price plus some for improvements. Can't remember the word for it or the click chain, something off Ethel? ANYway, inheritance and sales law varies widely and he isn't paying any attention to that.
Basically he's a lawyer as an alignment, to go with the Paladin.
I and my tiny legal knowledge want to throw a collective of lawyers at this setup just to see how MANY spanners could be hiding in the works that this story has no interest in.
The story as written is being very boring so far. I can only buy the idea this man thinks he can buy a Kingdom and save it if I also think he's a really annoying kind of a person. It's not ideal.
But it is reminding me why I have a collection of books where the appeal is
a woman is in this book and she gets to talk and everything.
Their reread value is less than their first read value at the time, but I am recalling why they were an improvement.
ETA: page 167, there is now a woman in this story.
this is not an improvement.
she arrives naked and announces she belongs to the protagonist.
Honestly at this point I'm only going to finish reading it because I know I've read the whole series before. It has to get better than that.
Magic Kingdom For Sale Sold
and immediately discovered I have retained very little of this and am now finding it *very* annoying.
I think the only women with words so far are receptionists, and I am over 150 pages in.
I keep stopping and staring into space for a bit thinking
okay but if even one woman was in the room right now and able to speak
this would be a very different story.
Also: I am not buying this guy as a lawyer, corporate or otherwise. He doesn't ask any questions about this Kingdom's laws, or the sort of questions that would be asked of a business theoretically being sold as a going concern. He has not once wondered what kind of treaties it might be bound by, even when he was quite certain it was simply up a mountain somewhere. He didn't think to look up if America has a pre existing relationship with Landover. He does nothing researchy whatsoever.
He does however take his boxing gloves and keep doing speeches about how the law binds everyone
without actually looking up how the law binds everyone
even when that has varied wildly even within British history let alone the continent.
What does King actually mean? It is a legally defined role as per the speeches he is giving but he has not looked up the legal definitions! And we're staying with him tightly, there's no 'Ben spent some time in the law library and had a good think about what he read there' possible to insert in the timeline.
He did not ask under which jurisdiction the contract he signed would be valid, despite it dealing with more than one US State!
I just cannot believe in this character.
I keep on stopping to wonder what the character he was stated to be in the beginning would actually do and it gets frustrating.
Also! He just got asked to make a marriage alliance and turned it down on the spot. But he didn't actually ask what inheritance laws apply or what marriage would mean or ANYthing. And that's all somewhat crucial here!
He has bought the Kingdom as if the throne can possibly be for sale, but the throne keeps reverting to the original sellers. So what kind of sales law is applying and how can it mesh with inheritance law?
And I just looked up the definition of Atheling again - as you do - and was three wiki clicks away from a sort of inheritance law that says family can buy back land that was sold to non family, at the original price plus some for improvements. Can't remember the word for it or the click chain, something off Ethel? ANYway, inheritance and sales law varies widely and he isn't paying any attention to that.
Basically he's a lawyer as an alignment, to go with the Paladin.
I and my tiny legal knowledge want to throw a collective of lawyers at this setup just to see how MANY spanners could be hiding in the works that this story has no interest in.
The story as written is being very boring so far. I can only buy the idea this man thinks he can buy a Kingdom and save it if I also think he's a really annoying kind of a person. It's not ideal.
But it is reminding me why I have a collection of books where the appeal is
a woman is in this book and she gets to talk and everything.
Their reread value is less than their first read value at the time, but I am recalling why they were an improvement.
ETA: page 167, there is now a woman in this story.
this is not an improvement.
she arrives naked and announces she belongs to the protagonist.
Honestly at this point I'm only going to finish reading it because I know I've read the whole series before. It has to get better than that.