Left Behind Chapters 9 and 10

CHAPTER 9

...he [Buck] was back in Steve's Plank office, disheveled and apologetic. And he had been right.
He had been right about what? There's nothing in the previous sentence he could be right about. Perhaps he was right to be apologetic, but that's so clunky and badly worded. These books offend me deeply.

So right now, the world is falling apart. Every child has disappeared. People are grieving. There's death and destruction everywhere. Clearly, what the world wants to read about now is some kind of meeting between two opposing groups of Jews. I don't even give a shit about that on a GOOD day.

I also don't understand why Buck doesn't care that his niece and nephew and sister-in-law are GONE. Buck didn't PERSONALLY lose anyone, but his brother must be insane with grief. How can one person care so little about another?

Chloe hears that her mom and brother are dead. Her response? "I don't want to hear this." Look, I get denial. That's fine. That's a realistic reaction to tragedy. But the way she says it is so stilted and unrealistic.

I'm paraphrasing this next part:
Guy: [To Buck] This call is going to be taped, starting now.
Buck: What?
Guy: We're going to be taping this call.
Buck: I don't follow.

BUCK, IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

Oh yeah, Dirk (Hardpec) committed suicide. No one really cares that much.

Buck tells Plank what happened. Plank's response? "That's terrible." No one here is a real person.

"Scotland Yard and security personnel here at the exchange.
Scotland Yard? Buck thought. We'll see about that.
See about what? Does he not believe it's actually Scotland Yard? Or "we'll see about that" pertaining to the suicide that may not be a suicide?

Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Rayford is pissed because his daughter is grieving instead of being a comfort to him. Because obviously, women are around just to tend to the men. Geez, Chloe, why do you even bother to think that you have free will?

Dudes, we're not even halfway through. We're like a third of the way through. I'm SOOOOOO BOOOOOOORED.

"Where are they?" she whined at last.
This comes after Chloe starts crying during a meal. "Whined" is not the best word to use here. It's a negative word. Annoying people whine. A girl crying over the deaths of her sister and brother...not so much.

Ha ha ha ha. Rayford says he's a Christian because he's not Jewish. That's how I picked my religion: process of elimination. Also, there are only two religions in the world.

Chloe makes a good point. If only the fundies get taken away and the rest of us - even if we're good people but we aren't proselytizing assholes - have to stay and live through Armageddon, then isn't that kind of a dick move?

Why is everyone so interested with Nicolae Carpathia? Supposedly he's so charismatic and everything, but you kind of have to see/hear someone to be attracted to them, yes?

CHAPTER 10
Strange word/phrase- "Come, come man!"

Dear God please, not another chapter.

Buck keeps investigating everything he SHOULDN'T be. There's a great story RIGHT IN YOUR BACKYARD, but no.

Rayford goes to his wife's fundie church and meets Bruce Barnes, who I believe becomes important later. Wait wait wait. If Bruce Barnes is the pastor at the fundie church, why is he still here? I thought all fundies were Raptured.

"Come, come man!"
I imagine this being said in like a Sherlock Holmes accent. I laughed out loud when I read it. No one talks like this!

Buck: "Darn right you're fanning my flame!"
That's what she said.

Buck's best friend just died, but he's more preoccupied with solving the mystery than grieving over the loss.

Turns out Dirk was left handed and to commit suicide he had to have held the gun in his right hand. Alan (cop and Dirk's friend) didn't tell anyone because he's scared the killer will come after him. This is so stupid, but apparently Alan knows for sure people won't be happy if he says otherwise. Understandable, kind of.

So this Cockney is talking and says "governor." HOW MANY COCKNEYS DO YOU KNOW OF WHO SAY GOVERNOR? It's "guv'nor." Not governor.

Show don't tell. "Buck was sad." "Buck was angry." "Rayford was grief-stricken." This is such bad writing.

"Thank you kindly."
The London cabbie has turned into Benton Fraser from Due South.

These chapters were so boring. I mean, they're all boring, but these more so than usual.