Oh, what an interesting day. And might I just say, bravo for your bad-ass strength! The idea of hefting 100 lbs more than 3 feet is nigh impossible for me to contemplate. I can heft 50-lb bags of whatever from the ground to a truck bed on a good day. Sometimes I really hate my wimpy tiny upper body. Stupid chameleon arms!
Maybe I should try reading Kim Harris again. I remember liking her first book until the end, when there was some big scene where the lead character was turned into a mustelid of some kind (weasel or ferret, I think), and Harris kept repeatedly referring to the mustelid body as a "rodent". And it drove me NUTS. It's not a rodent; it's a CARNIVORE! CARNIVORE, DAMMIT!
I know that's a stupid bio-geek reaction but come ON. They aren't even in the same Order, let alone the same Family. It's the equivalent of confusing the cat family with the deer/antelope family, or the monkey family with the bat family . Jeeeez.
You know, sometimes I wonder how cops and lawyers and all the members of all the other professions that movies and books focus on feel. They must get numbed to mind-blowing inaccuracy, or how could they ever read or watch anything?
Still, I remember liking the book to that point. And I'm guessing "rodents" probably don't come up a lot so I probably wouldn't be set off again.
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Date: 2008-03-12 03:16 am (UTC)Maybe I should try reading Kim Harris again. I remember liking her first book until the end, when there was some big scene where the lead character was turned into a mustelid of some kind (weasel or ferret, I think), and Harris kept repeatedly referring to the mustelid body as a "rodent". And it drove me NUTS. It's not a rodent; it's a CARNIVORE! CARNIVORE, DAMMIT!
I know that's a stupid bio-geek reaction but come ON. They aren't even in the same Order, let alone the same Family. It's the equivalent of confusing the cat family with the deer/antelope family, or the monkey family with the bat family . Jeeeez.
You know, sometimes I wonder how cops and lawyers and all the members of all the other professions that movies and books focus on feel. They must get numbed to mind-blowing inaccuracy, or how could they ever read or watch anything?
Still, I remember liking the book to that point. And I'm guessing "rodents" probably don't come up a lot so I probably wouldn't be set off again.