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Button, Button
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Button, Button |
| Author(s): | Katherine Robertson |
| Date(s): | 1994 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
| Relationship(s): | |
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Button, Button is a Starsky/Hutch story by Katherine Robertson (Marian Kelly).
It was published in ...Turned to Fire and is also online.
Reactions and Reviews
1995
Button, Button - this one shows that Starsky and Hutch have other things to do, too, not only working on their relation ship. I like it because it shows that those two have to work for their living, even if they sometimes don't like the job they are doing. [1]
"Button, Button..." is a very good crime story, excellently plotted, with astonishing detail. Marian Kelly is a top-notch writer. I like the use of the title quote, and how it fits the story. The focus is not so much on Starsky & Hutch's relationship, which is a nice break, but they still have to grapple with being "undercover lovers" in a tough male profession. [2]
"Button, Button" by Marian Kelly. A good police, story, with a lot of unexpected and unusual plot twists and some very vivid original characters; the scenes in Mexico, especially, were exceptionally well done and gave me a real sense of "being there". I loved the love scene, especially the line, "I'll finish this with my super-deluxe massage that Sweet Alice charges fifty bucks for." My only, complaint was that I would've preferred a little more relationship; a flashback on how Starsky and Hutch became lovers, for example. (But then, few stories have enough, "relationship" to suit me.) [3]
BUTTON, BUTTON. I always expect a lot from Marian Kelly. I have read some wonderful stories by her, and she did not let me down this time. She always gives me a real 'feel' for Los Angeles - more so than many other writers (perhaps because she knows the area) - and the story kept my attention. In actual fact, I did think perhaps it was a bit truncated, although for the life of me I could not say why I should feel this way. Maybe I should just have liked more! It's a super zine, Linda. Every story, without exception, deserves its place![4]
Button, Button" - "A" for effort for attempting such a long, multi-layer story, as so few authors want to be bothered. Real plot and everything. The relationship was pretty much down-played, but I didn't mind. However, I had some trouble with the way this flowed. What the narrator was telling the reader and what the conversations were saying seemed inconsistent with each other at times. For example, when S&H first visit Kendall they seem hostile and overly suspicious for no reason. I couldn't detect anything in what Kendall was saying that would account for the hostility. (Also, a lot of the conversations with Kendall sounded awkward and unreal. I guess he seemed too personal with them, whch was at odds with how little they respected him.) In the middle of the story, either S or H mentions that Kendall stills loves his wife very much; yet, I didn't get that feeling at all from anything Kendall said. On pages 186 - 187, H is telling S about his conversation with Minnie and said, "...as soon as I said he suspected Reina, she blew." I missed where Minnie "blew" in the conversation on page 183. These are just a few examples of inconsistencies throughout the story. Also, it seemed like there was a lot of places where someone was telling somebody else to "Shut up". (For that matter, it seemed like there were a lot of places in the entire zine where someone ~ usually 8 or H ~ was telling someone else ~ usually S or H ~ to "shut up". The only "shut up" I recall from the series was when H was suffering withdrawal, so they usually sounded out of character.) Anyway, in most cases the "shut up" made the speaker sound childish and out of control. Still, this novella was very much a worthwhile read. I liked the little moments where S&H discussed their future, and I wished the end would have said something a little more definitive than, more or less, "we'll talk about it some more later." They'd all ready been talking about it here and there; I was ready for them to make a decision! All in all, some rough spots, but those are more easily forgiven when they're part of such a difficult task. My hat's off to the author. [5]
Button..." A real story! Felt like I was reading some sort of mystery novel. Great stuff. I have kind of a soft spot for slash stories where the sexual" relationship isn't the theme, but rather a soft sort of backdrop to play against.[6]
Marian's 'Button, Button' brings the special satisfaction of a story in which those two aspects of police work and personal relationship are perfectly balanced. [7]
2011
Sadly, our fandom has lost another one of its writers the past week. Marian Kelley, also known as Katherine Robertson, has passed away. In case some of you haven't read her fic, I thought I'd bring her to your attention and rec one of her stories. Button, Button... is a nice long case story involving a kidnapping of a young boy, a twist that I didn't see coming, and a fulfilling relationship between Starsky and Hutch. Her stories are well worth a read.[8]
References
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ from From The Collected Letters of Comment (1995)
- ^ a 2011 rec at Crack Van