[Darren MacLennan]

Originally Posted by WaitingForAName

I have to say I found this a disappointing review, even though I didn't read all of it.

Not wanting to wade through the convoluted details of an investigation that has not bearing on the central idea of the scenario is not the same as not reading through the entire book, Waiting.

It clearly shares much in common with some of Darren's other reviews. I haven't actually read them, but from what I've heard, they really weren't up to snuff either. I think he might have reviewed "Secrets of Spawn of Azathoth", or something with a title like that. The analysis he might have made of its armies of undead ninja could have been really off the mark.

This is just bizarre. I'm not sure what point you're getting at.

Getting back to the matter at hand, it's clear that too little time was spent in this review on what really interested me - street cars and the Golden Gate Bridge. I know many of you wouldn't care about these topics, but these are particularly dear to my heart. I want to see more coverage of them in the book, and not so much on all that other boring Mythos stuff that other people expect. After all, I'm the audience for this book, right? Nobody uses all that other stuff - at least, nobody who matters.

And at this point, we come to a complaint common to any reviewer: Because he isn't me, he can't tell me that a product is bad. Only I can do that.

Which is cool. In that case, you can stop reading any review ever.

I should add that the monster in Our Lady of Darkness actually does appear at the end of the novel to get a productive job in an ad agency. I'm not sure, though. I guess I could Google it, or ask someone who knows, or maybe even get up and actually look at the book, but it would interfere with the writing process and possibly cut down on the length of this paragraph. Besides, if we made sure our statements about a book were accurate before critiquing it, we'd never get anywhere.

Have you read the book in question? The entire book is a mystery as to whether there's a monster at all, and the climax features the main character wrestling with something that might be a Dutch Wife or the monster itself. When the central point of the book is ambiguity, it's a little difficult to cite chapter and verse.

On top of that, 90% of the reason why I go into such length is because I know that there's nothing nearer and dearer to the heart of a gamer than laser-focused nitpicking. If I omit something - anything - then there's the chance that somebody will pick it up and complain about it.

In conclusion, breasts are funny.

They sure are.

-Darren MacLennan