Quoting for giggles

[briarwood]

I mentioned Anne Bishop's Dark Jewels trilogy in my last post. That was before I reached the passage quoted under the cut. Yesterday I was going on about how dark these novels are, and that's true. But there's a lovely, quirky humour in them, too, and this made me laugh out loud when I read it:

"Do you understand this?" she demanded, thrusting a Craft book into his hands and pointing to a paragraph.

His insides churning, he called in his half-moon glasses, positioned them carefully on his nose, and obediently read the paragraph. "It seems simple enough," he said after a moment.

Jaenelle plopped on air, spraddle-legged. "I knew it," she muttered, crossing her arms. "I knew it was written in male."

Saetan vanished his glasses. "I beg your pardon?"

"It's gibberish. Geoffrey understands it but can't explain it so that it makes sense, and you understand it. Therefore, it's written in male - only comprehensible to a mind attached to a cock and balls."

Comments

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

:sporfle: That expression is fantastic *g* Thanks for the giggle, I needed light relief after finishing my essay!

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

That expression is fantastic *g*

Isn't it, though? Gave me a good laugh, too.

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

That feels like a very short Stargate drabble with Sam and Daniel. Maybe it's just my "listening to the Ark of Truth soundtrack" mentality. ;-D

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just my "listening to the Ark of Truth soundtrack" mentality. ;-D

Huh. Well, I certainly can't hear Sam and Daniel in there...but then, SG and I parted company a while ago. Who knows?

[nghthwk8.livejournal.com]

That is a good quote from Heir to the Shadows. There is a definite sense of humor in these books and passages that I read over and over again. The violence is usually not too graphic, but I always thought that the first book of the series is the darkest, except a for one section near the end of the last book. You mentioned earlier that the main character seems to be desexualized, there are reasons for it, but sexual awakening happens more in the third book, even though it is never graphic. That scene is actually kind of funny and light-hearted.

In many ways, I think The Invisible Ring, set years earlier in the same universe, is a better book. It's a tighter story with fewer characters and without as many shifts of pov. It also has the same type of humor and the characters are not as powerful as in the Black Jewels trilogy.

I hope you enjoy the series.