I heard in middle school that Clan of the Cave Bear was porny, so I read it and felt VERY VERY CHEATED because 90% of the first book is exposition.
Jessica is me.
The whole earth may be sucked into Hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
EpicTangent - Mar 29, 2011 7:25:55 am PDT #14199 of 28289
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
le nubian - Mar 29, 2011 7:26:32 am PDT #14200 of 28289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
lizard race with bifurcated peen
I dare you to google that.
le nubian - Mar 29, 2011 7:29:57 am PDT #14201 of 28289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
triple dog dare you.
Amy - Mar 29, 2011 7:31:46 am PDT #14202 of 28289
Because books.
I just did. Mostly links to stuff about reptiles, sadly.
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2011 7:33:46 am PDT #14203 of 28289
Coding and Sleeping
Did you turn off safe search first? Otherwise it's like sticking your tongue on a lightpole in the middle of summer.
le nubian - Mar 29, 2011 7:36:04 am PDT #14204 of 28289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
watch Avatar fan fic show up.
§ ita § - Mar 29, 2011 10:41:33 am PDT #14205 of 28289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm tempted to ask my father to go through the bookshelf at home until he finds the title. I'm consumed by curiosity.
I found a defender of the batshit author--he thinks that she was right in everything but the request to take the review down. I'm querying him on that point.
Consuela - Mar 29, 2011 10:43:21 am PDT #14206 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
he thinks that she was right in everything but the request to take the review down
He thinks she was correct in her assertion that her work had no typos or grammatical errors? Seriously?
Because even her Blogger profile is written poorly. I was astonished that the reviewer was able to wade through the entire novel, frankly.
le nubian - Mar 29, 2011 11:20:56 am PDT #14207 of 28289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
regardless of being right or wrong, can you clarify whether the person thought it was a good idea to enter into this fray in the first place?
shouldn't artists try to put some distance between themselves and reviewers? nothing good can come of it.
Amy - Mar 29, 2011 11:44:59 am PDT #14208 of 28289
Because books.
I've certainly never seen it turn out well. See: discussion in Music about Amanda Palmer.
The danger of the internet is that it's too easy to have a bad day, read a bad review, and hit send on a comment before you cool off. In the bad old days, you had time to reconsider (or have friends restrain you) before you fired off a letter to the editor or responded to a reader's letter via snail mail.