I got a Kindle Software update for my Touch yesterday. I'm actually not sure how the hell those things work when I don't turn on the wireless, but they do.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 6:53:05 am PDT #20647 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 6:53:54 am PDT #20648 of 28370
Because books.
In email, or one of those notifications up in the upper left corner?
Oh, wait, you said Touch. I have a Fire. Never mind.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2013 7:43:06 am PDT #20649 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Oh Hugh Howey. I don't want to link it because it doesn't merit clicks. A quick twitter search will do fine: Hugh Howey Worldcon.
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 7:55:47 am PDT #20650 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I saw Seanan talking about that on Twitter but couldn't find it. Let's see...
Ew. There are less gross ways to tell that story. And here I had been intrigued by the Wool phenomenon and kind of wanted to check it out.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 7:57:48 am PDT #20651 of 28370
Because books.
Less gross? That's all you've got?
I'm going to blog about it later. Like I said to Sox, if a male YA writer talked about a female YA writer that way online, the wrath that would befall him would be epic.
Nothing proves you're a great writer better than using the two most cliched female slurs in history -- bitch and crazy.
Dana - Apr 12, 2013 8:11:00 am PDT #20652 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Boy, the comments, as always, are the crowning glory.
"Yeah, man! I would have wanted to slap that bitch too!"
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2013 8:12:33 am PDT #20653 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow, that was an unpleasant and uncomfortable read. But really efficient in conveying that I never want to have a conversation with this guy. Even the stuff that he wasn't saying to deliberately be provocative makes me roll my eyes:
those fine Canadians who were just as sweet and hilarious as you expect Canadians to be
Seriously? It's just so incredibly self-congratulatory from beginning to end, and only a couple people on the first page of comments is taking him to task for anything.
I mean, there is so clearly a way (myriad ways!) to tell that story and make stupid lady seem stupid without also painting himself an ass.
Consuela - Apr 12, 2013 8:12:55 am PDT #20654 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hmm? What's going on?
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2013 8:14:57 am PDT #20655 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, someone is WRONG on the internets.
meara - Apr 12, 2013 8:19:04 am PDT #20656 of 28370
Yeah, I went and read it. Sounds like a frustrating and obnoxious experience, but a little too self-congratulatory for NOT pulling the "do you know who I am" card (which is in some cases as obnoxious as pulling that card!!), and as someone said above, if the best you can do is "crazy bitch" you ought to consider a better way to tell it. I mean...crazy? Really? Doesn't sound like any of it was... Obnoxious. Overly-ambitious. Possibly/probably lying. But crazy? No. Not to mention that (a) if the "sweet" canadians are smart, they can see through her BS on their own, and if they can't, they need some toughening up, and (b) she IS right in a lot of ways. Most self-published stuff IS dreck, and WON"T win you tons of money and accolades. Sometimes you're the exception to the rule, dude.