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Strega - Mar 15, 2011 7:14:00 am PDT #14114 of 28287

It's not just grammar & spelling, but if they're usually correct at that level, I've had extraordinarily bad luck.

I just grabbed that movie review by their senior reporter and popped it into Word, which found 6 punctuation/grammar errors (ignoring the usual false positives). I'd say there are at least another half-dozen style problems, ranging from a grammar issue that Word didn't catch to stuff like:

(there's no daylight to indicate time or clocks).
...Because daylight is such a great indicator of clocks?

And then the fact that she can't pick a POV. It's ugly writing and I can't see past it. (I'm not saying other people should react this way, but man, it really bugs me. Obviously.)

flea - Mar 16, 2011 4:04:44 pm PDT #14115 of 28287
information libertarian

These are supposedly from actual books, which I guess they must be (I am envisioning the slush pile) because you couldn't make some of this shit up: [link]

Laga - Mar 17, 2011 6:28:45 am PDT #14116 of 28287
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

eep! Stuff like this is why I never end up submitting anything I've written. What if I don't realize how much I suck?

DavidS - Mar 17, 2011 6:48:57 am PDT #14117 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What if I don't realize how much I suck?

You gotta getta beta, baby.

sumi - Mar 17, 2011 10:31:33 am PDT #14118 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!

George RR Martin's publisher shows off the massive manuscrupt of A Dance with Dragons (so far).

erikaj - Mar 18, 2011 9:36:22 am PDT #14119 of 28287
Always Anti-fascist!

I wrote a Kos post that I think belongs here...if you're ever on DK, the new Readers and Book Lovers group might be worth Buffistas' time. [link]

§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:36:36 pm PDT #14120 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

IO9 has an interview with John Norman. I didn't read it, because I can't separate the text from the author and I don't care to, because the text is stinky. But I thought it might interest some here.

DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 6:48:57 pm PDT #14121 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Norman is such a weird flashing of a kinky sensibility in a somewhat mainstream context.

You could go into a B. Dalton books at your local mall and get all the B&D you'd ever want.

§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:57:16 pm PDT #14122 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've got no issue with B&D in instances. As an assertion that that's the way the world works, and there are ingrained gender roles in it? Fuck that noise. Not interested.

DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 6:58:54 pm PDT #14123 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Wow, that was illuminating about my own biases because I realized while reading his words that I associate a highly latinate vocabulary as highly bullshit. (It is, of course, the core language of law and medicine, but also politics.)

It just screams to me as ungrounded NerdNerdNerd. (Not in the good way.)

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