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Erg. Computers are so frustrating sometimes. I wrote up this huge entry with my thoughts on the Oscars, and livejournal ate it. At any rate, I suppose it's just as well, since the Oscars are always the same every year: I always predict the winners correctly, and they're never the ones that deserve to win. (Hence the 'hate' part of my love/hate relationship with the Oscars.) The 'love' part would come in with the Red Carpet; I've been a horrible fashionista since I was three, and so seeing everybody in their pretty clothes is what it's all about for me! My best dressed women this year: Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Drew Barrymore, Ziyi Zhang, and Emmy Rossum, in that order. I'm quite pleased with how classic and elegant everybody seemed to be this year. Hopefully a trend we'll see continue!
My first foray into reading Sherlock Holmes pastiche was The Seven Per Cent Solution. I figured I'd give it a go since it's a 'classic' of sorts, but I found it hopelessly mediocre. There really wasn't any spark in it, and it kind of reminded me in some places of how I used to write fan-fiction when I was thirteen. I did laugh my ass at the end when they tried to explain the reason behind Sherlock's chosen profession with all sorts of Freudian logic, which quite frankly was just too silly and too obvious. Of course, my opinion of Freud on the whole is pretty low, so it was kind of hard to buy into the book at all. But it wasn't truly heinous, no great heresies were comitted, and on the whole I'd call it harmless.
My first foray into reading Sherlock Holmes pastiche was The Seven Per Cent Solution. I figured I'd give it a go since it's a 'classic' of sorts, but I found it hopelessly mediocre. There really wasn't any spark in it, and it kind of reminded me in some places of how I used to write fan-fiction when I was thirteen. I did laugh my ass at the end when they tried to explain the reason behind Sherlock's chosen profession with all sorts of Freudian logic, which quite frankly was just too silly and too obvious. Of course, my opinion of Freud on the whole is pretty low, so it was kind of hard to buy into the book at all. But it wasn't truly heinous, no great heresies were comitted, and on the whole I'd call it harmless.
