In The Venetian Betrayal, our hero-protagonits (not to be confused with Hiro Protagonist) fails to kill the Bad Girl. He kills other less important Bad Guys throughout the book so we know he’s OK with doing it… dumb. Make characters consistent and believable.

Mitch Rapp, the hero-protagonist of many Vince Flynn novels doesn’t hesitate to do what needs done.

I’m not saying I want my protagonists to be cold-blooded killers, but I want them to be consistent. If you’re not going to kill the Big Bad Girl then don’t kill the henchmen, either.

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Mesas and buttes are pretty much just different names for very similar things. Both have steep sides and flat tops. Geographers tend to differentiate between the two based on a ratio of top size to height: “a mesa has a top that is greater than three times its height, while a butte’s top is less than three times its height” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte).

Of course to the common person on the street the choice of word is often determined by where you are from. The Southwestern US has more mesas than buttes (which are more prevalent to the north).

OK, so what is the difference between a ‘mountain range’ and a ‘mountain chain’? Apparently nothing, according to Wikipedia as both searches take you to the same page.

There you go.

Of course, the EB may have something different to say…

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Of course I was very intrigued by the premise- I mean who doesn’t like an end-of-days book featuring vampires? So I snagged the book from Audible and gave it a listen. It isn’t a long book (and therefore wouldn’t regularly have been an Audible candidate), but will be staying with me for a while. I suspect that the movie doesn’t share much with the book (no golf playing as I saw in the trailer) but I generally like Mr Smith’s movies.

The verdict: I Am Legend is a good book – and Rotten Tomatoes is currently giving the movie 65% so give it a read/watch.

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