Schu wrote:...now I'm losing all respect for his rather cute and seemingly smart girlfriend too
Does the boyfriend have money? Or is he hung like a horse? Those are the two main reasons smart gals end up with dumb guys.
Or does he slap her around? 75% of women seek out and remain with abusive partners due to some no-longer-relevant neural circuitry that releases endorphins in such emotional stress situations. (At least, that's the only reason I can figure for the phenomenon.)
I've only read bits of one of the
The Suns volumes, but it was the same shit as all his other books I've looked at (tell-no-show, shallow characters, insipid writing, BAD BAD BAD [Sing it, Mallory!] "science").
Didn't someone point out long ago that Kevin also did the novelization of
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ... which was originally a graphic novel to begin with? HOW FUCKING STUPID is that? (I've seen the movie—Feh!—but not read the original. Supposedly the movie story is significantly different, so I suppose you could milk some sort of weak justification out of that?)
This just occurred to me: which came first, his novelization of
TLoEG or his Nemo and
Martian War novels? Because the essential conceit is the same: that certain fictional characters and their adventures were real and simply set down by the authors known for them. (Kevin's Wells takes part in the trips to the Moon and Mars, but his Verne is just a hack who scribbles down the tales told to him by his dashing friend Nemo ... or so the reviews say; caveat: I've read neither.)
According to the dates on WP, the TLoEG novel (2003) came out between the Nemo (2002) and Martian War (2005) ones, but of course the original Moore stories predate all of them, so he doesn't get to claim originality here, either.