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stargateficrec2008-03-02 12:37 am
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What Rough Beast, by Quercus (NC-17)
Good morning, I will be your Jack/Daniel reccer for the month of March. As this is my first time reccing for this community, please be gentle. :-)
Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Slash, Mystery, Romance
Warning: Violence
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author's Website: http://slashcity.org/quercus/
Link: http://slashcity.org/quercus/Stargate/Beast.html
Why This Must Be Read:
When I first started reading Jack/Daniel a few years ago, Quercus was one of the first writers I found. She is nothing short of amazing and our fandom is diminished by her leaving it. But the small body of work she left us is a rich treasure just begging to be mined. What Rough Beast was one of the first Jack/Daniel stories I read and it blew me away. Quercus takes Jack and Daniel to Cairo where she weaves a haunting ancient mystery with a gentle, enduring love story. Within the pages of the international press, Daniel discovers a pattern of horrific murders among Egypt's poor and dispossessed that leads him to believe there may be a Goa'uld lurking on Earth. What follows is an exploration of a centuries' old mystery that encompasses far more than just the modern dead and Jack and Daniel discover that, in many ways, the past really is prologue. A cast of exquisite original characters flesh out the story with each one being note perfect. This is a must read for any fan of this pairing and especially for anyone who writes it. Send the spouse and the kids off to the mall, toss the pets into the backyard, pour yourself a nice hot cup of tea and settle in for a good long read. You won't want to put it down and if you shiver a little at the sight of a harmless white butterfly, well, the imagination is a powerful thing and you're about to venture into a master's.
He pulled out his journal, the one he'd bought in Colorado Springs so long ago, and began to write, describing what they'd seen that day. "I don't know what I hope to find here," he ended. "Whatever is killing people is in Giza; we know that. Yet here we are, hundreds of miles away, and why? Because Abydos, we were told, is where it all begins. And so we wait for night, whatever that might bring."
When he looked up from writing, Jack was awake and watching him, a half-smile on his face. "Hey," he said softly, and Jack leaned forward to kiss him gently.
Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Slash, Mystery, Romance
Warning: Violence
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author's Website: http://slashcity.org/quercus/
Link: http://slashcity.org/quercus/Stargate/Beast.html
Why This Must Be Read:
When I first started reading Jack/Daniel a few years ago, Quercus was one of the first writers I found. She is nothing short of amazing and our fandom is diminished by her leaving it. But the small body of work she left us is a rich treasure just begging to be mined. What Rough Beast was one of the first Jack/Daniel stories I read and it blew me away. Quercus takes Jack and Daniel to Cairo where she weaves a haunting ancient mystery with a gentle, enduring love story. Within the pages of the international press, Daniel discovers a pattern of horrific murders among Egypt's poor and dispossessed that leads him to believe there may be a Goa'uld lurking on Earth. What follows is an exploration of a centuries' old mystery that encompasses far more than just the modern dead and Jack and Daniel discover that, in many ways, the past really is prologue. A cast of exquisite original characters flesh out the story with each one being note perfect. This is a must read for any fan of this pairing and especially for anyone who writes it. Send the spouse and the kids off to the mall, toss the pets into the backyard, pour yourself a nice hot cup of tea and settle in for a good long read. You won't want to put it down and if you shiver a little at the sight of a harmless white butterfly, well, the imagination is a powerful thing and you're about to venture into a master's.
He pulled out his journal, the one he'd bought in Colorado Springs so long ago, and began to write, describing what they'd seen that day. "I don't know what I hope to find here," he ended. "Whatever is killing people is in Giza; we know that. Yet here we are, hundreds of miles away, and why? Because Abydos, we were told, is where it all begins. And so we wait for night, whatever that might bring."
When he looked up from writing, Jack was awake and watching him, a half-smile on his face. "Hey," he said softly, and Jack leaned forward to kiss him gently.