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Friday, 7 January 2005

The Night Men ::

I love Keith Snyder’s mystery novels. Maybe it’s because I know him, know that he’s a funny guy, and that that humor permeates the descriptions. Maybe it’s because the protagonist, Jason Keltner, like Keith, is a musician, and musicians have a unique perspective on the world (or ... is there a word for perspective involving listening instead of seeing?). I put Keith’s The Night Men on my Amazon wish list sometime in the past year and was most pleasantly surprised when my mom gave it to me for Christmas. I just came to this delighting sentence:

[T]he theremin had been a geek-attractor in the booth of a small, innovative music software company that was, during the short span of the show, courted, acquired, reorganized to maximize effectiveness, and summarily executed, no survivors reported, for no apparent reason, by a large guitar manufacturer that was, despite having no business acquiring such companies in the first place, famous for leaving a scattered trail of their smoking carcasses strewn across the landscape.

I’m sure any resemblences to actual companies are purely coincidental, and it’s just a figment of my overactive imagination that I’m thinking of Opcode and Gibson right now.

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