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Mar. 15th, 2005 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutMy Tangent review is online:
"These problems were reversed in "The Dodo Factory," by Lori Selke. We got a nice big look at the personality of one avian researcher immured on an artificial island with his turkeys, part of a team effort to bring back the dodo, and in designer colors, too! For some reason the main character can't quite put a finger on, the designer colors bother him (I admit as an ex-science major, they bother me too) and he decided to smuggle out some dodo embryos and try to make them as they would have been way back when. It was a good read, but the plot could have gone places it didn't, and the only reason the main characters were the main characters was stage time. It was a nice diversion, but no cigar."
Requisite author grumble: Of course the plot could have gone places it didn't. That was intentional. Idjit.
And what the hell does "the only reason the main characters were the main characters was stage time" mean?
Also missed the point that you can't make dodos the way they were way back when. But whatever.
Nonetheless, it's actually not a bad review. I can get my own cigar.
"These problems were reversed in "The Dodo Factory," by Lori Selke. We got a nice big look at the personality of one avian researcher immured on an artificial island with his turkeys, part of a team effort to bring back the dodo, and in designer colors, too! For some reason the main character can't quite put a finger on, the designer colors bother him (I admit as an ex-science major, they bother me too) and he decided to smuggle out some dodo embryos and try to make them as they would have been way back when. It was a good read, but the plot could have gone places it didn't, and the only reason the main characters were the main characters was stage time. It was a nice diversion, but no cigar."
Requisite author grumble: Of course the plot could have gone places it didn't. That was intentional. Idjit.
And what the hell does "the only reason the main characters were the main characters was stage time" mean?
Also missed the point that you can't make dodos the way they were way back when. But whatever.
Nonetheless, it's actually not a bad review. I can get my own cigar.
