Joe! They need cool codenames and laser guns. It's still kind of funny that a lot of the characters each have their own trademark weapon. I guess I was expecting more of an 'average joe drawn into the supernatural' sort of situation, but eh. I've gotten a little ways into the book now- it's gotten better now that they're in full-on paramilitary mode. Ie, not only are there accountants that concealed carry, he's probably got at least one on his blogroll or RSS feeds, two if you count the above-mentioned Tam (who probably gets an honorary accountant point for dealing with ATF forms). One of his first books used TheHighRoad - the gunnie forum, despite its schismatic nature - for a cover blurb. Correia's got a WordPress, where his political leanings are ]pretty obvious, and more importantly he's part of the gun community in general. The gun porn looks in at least part a reaction to mainstream fiction writing, where gun mechanics and the laws of physics are often given the finger. As a result of being pulp, the people do tend to be seriously larger-than-life in a way that doesn't work in an RPG setting, but they're fine in a literary one. Tam of Books Bikes Boomsticks puts it better than I can: they're pulp, proudly pulp, and expertly written in that concept.
Anyone else familiar with the author? Or heck, have any other books with ridiculous protagonists worth mentioning? I think the worst/best part is the fact that if I read this book when I was still a kid, I would've thought it was the BEST THING EVAR. Regardless, the several cases of "Wait, what?" that popped up during my reading compelled me to go ahead and share my pain with you guys. I'm not very far in the book, and I'm perfectly willing to read it as silly monster-movie mayhem. In any case, I suppose the jury's still out. And heck, I'm only on page 67, so who knows what'll turn up! Noteable mostly at this point because she wears glasses and packs heat.and she has dark hair, too, so I just realized that she's just a leather catsuit and a fake accent away from The Baroness. Oh, and there's a love interest type as well. It reminds me of the sort of characters Hunter: The Reckoning told you NOT to make in the game. I'm pretty sure I made a character like this when I was 15.
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More details of the protagonist's background are revealed, showing his father is/was a Special Forces legend, who trained the protagonist how to shoot when he was a kid.and also, the protagonist paid his way through accounting school by being a bouncer at a biker bar and moonlighting in illegal UFC-type fights on the side. And we meet some Federal agents who are vaguely-incompetent jerks, which just makes me go 'hm' again. The protagonist is a gun-nut, and a right-leaning, anti-authoritarian one, to boot (in a Baen book? I am shocked, I know). I mean, I understand calling your gun a Colt or a S&W or whatever, but does the reader really need to know the number of grains of powder in the rounds as they're being shot? The weaponry fetishization doesn't help much either. Maybe I'm just reading too much into this, but the 'your incompetent boss is really a monster and then you have to kill him' sounds.well, vaguely uncomfortably revenge-porn-y. Not saying there aren't gun toting number crunchers out there, but still. It's just that.the character is supposed to be an accountant. That's one way to deal with a monster that's going to eat you, sure. 357 revolver from his ankle holster and shoot him down. In the first chapter, the protagonist finds out his boss is a werewolf. I'm three chapters, in, and it's.something, alright.Īs, here's the deal. And hey, the back blurb talks about how the guy works for a monster hunting organization (obviously). I dunno why, but every now and again I get the urge to read something with one of those shiny, ugly, trashy covers. I had a bunch of credit at the local used bookstore, so I picked this book up on a whim.
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