imagine trying to hug mycroft. i like to imagine it’d look something like trying to get a cat to take a bath
only if you’re not greg lestrade bc if you’re greg lestrade, after a second he sort of melts into you and gives in to his long-denied thirst for physical affection
Just to add a little fuel to the fire of that last post…
In The Empty Hearse, Sherlock was pulled out of Eastern Europe* to deal with an emergency back home.
In His Last Vow, one of the papers Janine brought to Sherlock in the hospital included a feature block reading “Eastern Europe Erupts.”
By that evening, Mycroft was so focused on tracking something in Eastern Europe that he could barely be bothered to look up from his computer when Lestrade came to ask about his missing brother.
After Sherlock’s recovery, Mycroft mentioned MI6 wanted to place Sherlock back into Eastern Europe.
But for the second time, an emergency in England put an abrupt end to one of Sherlock’s Eastern European undercover excursions.
So it seems to me that it’s worth at least considering the possibility that “Miss me?” wasn’t about keeping Sherlock home so much as keeping him away from whatever’s going down in Eastern Europe. A good mental exercise and chance to shake up our assumptions, if nothing else.
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* [Eastern Europe is defined in a number of ways, and the countries said to be part of it vary. Here’s an example of a definition that labels both Serbia and Poland as part of Eastern Europe. I personally feel Mycroft’s Ugly Duckling mission map plus his saying MI6 wanted Sherlock “back” in Eastern Europe when the last foreign country Sherlock had been in was Serbia is enough to consider both countries part of Eastern Europe as the show sees it, but YMMV.]
twilight (any of them) by stephine myers, Carrie by Stephen King, The Davinci Code by Dam Brown.
Yeesh
well, burn twlight. Sorry, gotta go with the popular choice there. Read carrie, rewrite davinci code cause it’ good but it could be better
and then go and rewrite the fucking screenplay too because the movie just pissed me off (it all but ruined the female mc)
Random question, Mer, have you read any of Dan Brown’s other novels? To me, the whole Robert Langdon series so far is a bit hokey, yet still quite page-turning. His two other novels are pretty interesting…
I actually haven’t, just Davinci code. I found I enjoyed that one well enough (haaaated the movie though). Nothing else in that series particularly interested me enough to go read it. But I did like the puzzles and I’ve never traveled outside the US, so the locations are always interesting.
Angels and Demons was pretty good, it’s actually the first one written in the series…but filmmakers though that the whole Davinci would be easier to do so they went with that one. Angels and Demons actually veered quite a bit from the film, which surprised me. The Lost Symbol was like Freemasonry and Founding Fathers sort of stuff along with measuring the weight of souls that took place in mostly DC…it was interesting because it was US stuff, but it probably captured me the least. Inferno was pretty good, it’s Dante’s Inferno and the World Health Organization and a few other things.
His two other novels are Deception Point and Digital Fortress. I think Deception Point has to do with aliens and Arctic ice. Digital Fortress should be like the NSA and senators I think.
If you enjoy like, mysteries and conspiracy theories, I really do suggest his books. Like I said, kinda hokey but still pretty page-turning. If I’m not mistaken, Dan Brown said that he had like a dozen or so novels planned out for the whole character of Robert Langdon, and I’m interested to see what other crazy-ass groups and theories he’ll be able to come with for him.
I might have to give them a try sometime. I need more books to read anyway (almost done with a prayer for owen meany…don’t spoil the ending for me). I didn’t hate it or anything, i though tit was an interest romp i probably woudlnt’ reread. Have you read Clive Cussler’s books? they’re interesting adventure novels like that….but don’t bother with any of his new ones with Dirk Pitt’s kids. They’re awful. But the original Dirk PItt novels are good and the ones with the Oregon.