This Will Kill You as an interesting piece of reading. Having found that the library has a copy, I can agree that it is; for a lot of people it would do nicely as pre-Halloween reading material to scare hell out of them.
However. I can wish he'd left out some of the personal comments at the end of a chapter, things like 'Semi-automatic military-type firearms have no use for hunting and people shouldn't oughta have them.' It's annoying to run into something like that.
Which reminds me: there's a series of Writer's Guide to- books, causes of death, poisons, crime scene investigation and so forth. I read the 'causes of death' one a few years back, and overall it was pretty good. Except for the section on firearms; instead of pretty much sticking to facts as he did on everything else, a fair chunk of that chapter was made up of lectures on how horrible guns are, how dangerous, etc. Otherwise the chapter had some good information for people not familiar with firearms, but all that space used for lecturing could have been used for more facts for writers to use..
No comments:
Post a Comment