Prosfic rec - Rachid by Lainie Stone

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Title: Rachid
Author: Lainie Stone
Link to story: Not online
Source: ProsLib CD

Just read this tonight, and I'm all happy-in-the-glow somehow, so I thought I'd better share it! This story was lovely! I really liked it! If you have any interest at all in AU Doyle-type/Bodie-type slash, based on other roles they've played, then do go and read it now!

Rachid is based, of course, on MS's character in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" - which movie/screenplay was actually written by Brian Clemens, and contains the wise words: "Trust in god - but tie your camel first"! Now where have we heard that before?! More importantly, it also contains MS as a swashbuckling sailor from the exotic Far East - and in the story by LS he meets a character who looks remarkably like Bodie, and makes me believe even more happily in reincarnation...

I read it all the way through in a sort of mock-Rachid accent, without being thrown into the modern world once, and LS also managed the trick of making me care for these characters, where I normally would be reading un-B/un-D with a sort of tolerance. So yeay!

Has anyone else read it and liked it? Hated it? Anything in between..? *g*

Comments

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of it, but it does sound like just my cuppa char!

I'll have to check now whether it's on my Proslib CD as it must be three or four years since I acquired it. I really should get an updated one, shouldn't I?

Thanks for the rec!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No, I probably wouldn't have heard of it, but for it turning up in my mail the other day... *g* And even if I'd already read it via ProsLib I would have forgotten it (memory of a much-maligned goldfish)...

My CD's about 3 years old now, and it's on there, so... *g*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I like this. Well, I like all of Lainie Stone's stories. I wish they were online, because I think too many people miss them on the CD. Did you ever get around to reading her "In His Majesty's Secret Service"?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I know I definitely have missed them from the CD - I think I read one that I didn't like (can't remember which one now) and she ended up in my pile of "authors who aren't my cup of tea" which is very very unfair of me, because I know that even if I don't like one story from an author I might like another! On the bright side - now I've got all her stories to read! And I think "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is still in my to-read pile... I think... am away tonight, but must check it all out on Sunday! Yeay for Sunday-reading-to-come!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Was it 'Aurelian"? It's the only one of hers I have a slight wincy feeling reading. I think anyway ('cos I haven't checked).

I love Rachid and Brass in Pocket. She has a brilliant way of approaching sexuality - if it feels good, do it, and if it's not good (like the rape stuff), her guys get over it. If there is any angst, it's in the love story, not the trauma. Rachid is pure fantasy, and I think we've gone away from that, so it's kind of refreshing in a backwards-looking way to read "old school" like hers and realise it can fucking work. And that you can read terms like "velvet column" and not have conniptions about purple prose because she's such a good storyteller.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Don't think it was Aurelian, though it might have been... Maybe it was one where she was a bit heavier with the Americanisms than others? I find myself wanting to add in proper adverbs, and take out words like "Lookit"... *g*

I tend not to notice whether something's "old school" or not - I don't think I actually distinguish that sort of thing unless you really force me to "analyse" something properly, and that's not what I'm in Pros for! *g* When I'm actually reading I just know that I'm deeply in the story and don't want anything to disturb me! I don't think it did in "Rachid" (that I can remember), though I just read "Victorian Bed" and found myself wincing in a few places...

"Velvet columns" can work as long as I'm not being smothered in too many of them... so to speak... *g* And yeah, that means a storyteller who knows when to stop making something "descriptive"!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I can't comment as I haven't got this story but it sounds good!