Willow ,'Help'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Crichton is Stephen King, with a metric ruler.
I think Stephen King is a talented writer, and especially enjoy his short stories and novellas (the stories in Skeleton Crew and Different Seasons are my favorites). I don't see any similarities between King and Crichton.
Do either of you eat Twix so that it breaks off just where the little holes are? The ones in the cookie part, I mean. (If you do this, you'll know what I mean -- if you don't, then I seem very insane right now.)
Sorry. I'm actually not all that fond of Twix. But I do pull off the edges of Reeses peanut butter cups, where the chocolate is thicker before it hits peanut butter. I don't know if this counts, but there you are.
Trudy, I am here.
I am not attacking Stephen King. I'm saying that Crichton's use of science has more in common with SK's use of the rules horror than it does with the use of science.
t does happy dance of Gus Is Here
You still alarming/titilating the housekeeping staff?
(Trudy, there is now a story I will someday tell you. You will be less alarmed than titillated, I warrant.)
Crichton defenders of Polter Cow's ilk are dead to me.
People who don't put the hyphen in my fucking name are dead to me.
sticks tongue out at Gus, reads Jurassic Park for the fourth time
(ah, but will I be intensely jealous?)
Polter-fucking-Cow, alright?
Intellgent dude, P-C. Spends his Saturdays in the lab, making the future come true. If he wants to read the Harvey Comics version of science fiction in his off-time, that is his bidness.
Journalists are taught to use said because other verbs often imply a judgement about the person. I think said is usually transparent, so I tend to use it myself, but there are plenty of situations where other words are better.