Oenone and the Snark
Feb. 10th, 2011 05:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caper_estI spent much of last night in extravagant adventures with the story's protagonist Oenone - a sort of lionless Una, overflowing with fangirl squee for a ridiculously pretty, gallant, and transparent knockoff of Sir Lancelot. Oenone could have spotted Helen of Troy a pawn, a queen, and a Primark tracksuit, and still been more attractive. I was not Sir Lancelot.
And then I read our reviews. The novel - which was, as I well knew, our actual adventures and not the mere telling of them - garnered somewhat mixed reactions from the critics. It was called Theseus and Oenone. I don't know who Theseus was, but I shouldn't be surprised if his surname turned out to be something like de la Mare.
"Unputdownable! Unpronounceable!" - Romantic Times.
"The dragon was everything every dragon should be. However, Lancelot du Lake is not Mary Sue's Legolas. Lancelot is the bastard son of Muhammed Ali and a brick shithouse." - Unidentified Prestigious Fantasy Reviewer.
Philistines! What do they know? I was there, I tell ya!
Even if, while it was going on, I could have stood for a lot less of Mary Sue's Legolas myself.
And then I read our reviews. The novel - which was, as I well knew, our actual adventures and not the mere telling of them - garnered somewhat mixed reactions from the critics. It was called Theseus and Oenone. I don't know who Theseus was, but I shouldn't be surprised if his surname turned out to be something like de la Mare.
"Unputdownable! Unpronounceable!" - Romantic Times.
"The dragon was everything every dragon should be. However, Lancelot du Lake is not Mary Sue's Legolas. Lancelot is the bastard son of Muhammed Ali and a brick shithouse." - Unidentified Prestigious Fantasy Reviewer.
Philistines! What do they know? I was there, I tell ya!
Even if, while it was going on, I could have stood for a lot less of Mary Sue's Legolas myself.
