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Mar. 18th, 2004 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenygalFinishing up my SUICIDE SQUAD collection (almost--still missing two issues and one of them has Batman and Oracle, dammit!), and it hit me really hard when one of the characters died. Yeah, yeah, the book's called SUICIDE SQUAD, what was I expecting? But every other time, either I knew it was coming (perils of reading fifteen years late and out of order) or I could see it coming, or for various reasons I didn't care so much. Not this time. This was a character who'd been part of the book for a good while, who didn't want--or deserve--to die, and who I was growing very fond of. It wasn't a heroic self-sacrifice, it wasn't a fight to the finish--they never even saw it coming. Just. Bang.
And in almost any other book, that wouldn't have been it. It would have been a con, or an impostor, or a setup for a resurrection. Anything. And I wanted it to be, I really did. I didn't want it to end like that! But in SUICIDE SQUAD the only guarantees you get are that the writing is great, that something will always go wrong--and that when someone goes down, they tend to stay there.
This is what it's like to hate a book because it's too well-written. I forget what that feels like sometimes...
And in almost any other book, that wouldn't have been it. It would have been a con, or an impostor, or a setup for a resurrection. Anything. And I wanted it to be, I really did. I didn't want it to end like that! But in SUICIDE SQUAD the only guarantees you get are that the writing is great, that something will always go wrong--and that when someone goes down, they tend to stay there.
This is what it's like to hate a book because it's too well-written. I forget what that feels like sometimes...
