Did you turn off safe search first? Otherwise it's like sticking your tongue on a lightpole in the middle of summer.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
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."
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2011 7:33:46 am PDT #14203 of 28289
Coding and Sleeping
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.
chrismg - Mar 29, 2011 12:23:47 pm PDT #14209 of 28289
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
If ita`s books had a very horny genie in them, that's the War of Powers series by Robert E. Vardeman.
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§ ita § - Mar 29, 2011 3:15:32 pm PDT #14210 of 28289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For some reason, the genie doesn't ring a bell. But the book covers with the giant eagles totally do. Oy. Thanks for the memories.
The poster defending the crazy author said that the reviewer was wrong for reading the wrong version of the book (despite his assertion he didn't) and that the sentences he quoted were just fine, and could be fixed by adding one word.
He is the first person not on Amazon.com say anything remotely nice about the author. IDGI.
Consuela - Mar 29, 2011 3:17:06 pm PDT #14211 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
That whole kerfuffle ended up on the Atlantic, as well.
I think the only real winner here is the blogger, who probably has a whole bunch of new subscribers.
Amy - Mar 30, 2011 10:13:03 am PDT #14212 of 28289
Because books.
Anybody want to help with some small details for my book? Any of our English teachers around?
Wren is in her junior year of high school, and in World Lit (no good reason why I chose that, but it's what's in the first book), and I already mentioned in the previous book that they were studying The Stranger. Any ideas about where the class would go from there? It's midterm time now, right before Christmas break, and I'm trying to figure out what might be on the exam.