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February 18, 2005
Hounds of Tindalos
I do not know if I am more surprised that you can lift an essay on Frank Belknap Long's "The Hounds of Tindalos" off the internet or that anyone (except me) would assign the story for an undergraduate assignment in the first place. This review would get a better grade from me.
The story throughout suffers from vague, repititious gibberish about time and space; the dialogue is weak and clunky ("Theosophical rubbish!"). What really hurts, though, is that even when the horrifying brutes are coming in through the angles, Chalmers doggedly* keeps writing in his notebook: "They are breaking through! Smoke is pouring from the corners of the walls! Their tongues --- ahhhhh ---" Heh heh. I'm sorry. This reminded me so irresistably of that scene from MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL with the cave wall inscription that ends "Arrrghh" that I almost fell off my chair. You're being ripped apart by demonic beasts and you're still determined to write the word "ahhhh" as if you were talking into a tape recorder. Okay.
*sorry.
*sorry.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 18, 2005 08:17 AM
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