noblesentiments ([info]noblesentiments) wrote,
@ 2006-10-31 21:35:00
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I'm so pleased I've read this story as I really, really liked it. It was well written, original, sweet, funny and very different. A refreshing change. And I want to thank [info]probodie for recommending it here: (otherwise I might have missed it): http://community.livejournal.com/ci5hq.

And a battered heart. First Ann, now Bodie. Neither one a suitable mate, so why waste tears over either of them? Ann was too cold and Bodie was too hot. Somewhere there had to be a woman for him...........................

Bodie. Bodie, dressed all in black, drink in hand and...Doyle's gaze fastened on Bodie's face. No privacy collar. No scar! Eyes wide, Doyle drank in his first sight of Bodie's face. Handsome. It struck him, hard, what an incredibly handsome man Bodie was. In a culture where many people elected to improve the face they were born with, where good looks were the rule rather than the exception, Bodie still managed to outshine everyone in the room. His dark hair, pale skin, and midnight blue eyes, above red lips and a tremendously fit body, made a package which drew every eye in the place.

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[info]faramir_boromir
2006-10-31 10:02 pm UTC (link)
I've read and re-read this zine ever since I got it last month. My favorite parts (and I include the bar scene you're quoting here) are the first time Doyle falls asleep in Bodie's arms, while they are passing through Jump; the almost manic happiness that Bodie has, whenever Doyle slides food across the table to him ("You do love me!"); and the sequence when Bodie follows Doyle home on the slipways after the bar sequence, and only belatedly does Doyle realize that he's going home. But the whole is fantastic.

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[info]noblesentiments
2006-10-31 10:40 pm UTC (link)
("You do love me!")

Oh yes! So Bodie, that. I thought the humour was gentle and subtle throughout the whole story. I really need to read it again and let everything sink in, but I just wanted to proclaim to the world what a good little story it was (IMHO).

Thanks for dropping in.

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[info]probodie
2006-11-01 10:24 pm UTC (link)
Great! I'm so pleased you liked it as much as I did :-)

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[info]shooting2kill
2006-11-01 11:17 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! Recs *do* work, don't they? I wouldn't have tried it otherwise (or might have been a bit put off by the sci-fi theme and not persevered).

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