Deb! I haven't posted with you in *ages.* You on IM?
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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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."
Holli - Apr 13, 2004 4:08:21 pm PDT #2199 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
deborah grabien - Apr 13, 2004 4:09:12 pm PDT #2200 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hi babe! Hang on a tic.
edit: I am now.
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2004 4:11:23 pm PDT #2201 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Or they could just think about it for a minute or three before they hit the post button? Seriously, no idea. I do tend to think about numbers affected by a letter or public speech of mine, so I always assume everyone else will, as well.
So you're just saying you'd like them to be thinking something in particular, not doing something in particular? How do you know they're not already? (Well, aside from the "THIS BOOK SUX" people.)
deborah grabien - Apr 13, 2004 4:18:49 pm PDT #2202 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(Well, aside from the "THIS BOOK SUX" people.)
(giggling)
Mostly from conversations with people I know who do post reviews regularly. There's been a long-term perception that the only people who read the things are other readers, rather than buyers - and that's where the responsibility ends. I just don't happen to agree, is all.
No big.
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2004 4:32:57 pm PDT #2203 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
"We can see that M is loopless" - loopless? You know, if I thought for a moment that was anything other than a math thing, I'd be dancing with delight. What a perfect phrase.
Yes. The friend I was studying with started giving me strange looks when I started saying "loopless" every time I wrote the word. (As for what it means, pretty much, first, draw a bunch of dots of a piece of paper. Then draw lines connecting them -- you can either start at one dot and end at another, or you can pick a dot, start there, draw a circly thing, and end up back where you started without touching any other dots. You don't have to connect all of them -- you don't even have to draw any lines; you can just leave it as the dots. You now have a graph. If there aren't any of the second kind of line, you have a loopless graph.) t /mathiness
erikaj - Apr 13, 2004 4:45:09 pm PDT #2204 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I had no idea that was serious at all. None. And I read all the time.
deborah grabien - Apr 13, 2004 4:48:16 pm PDT #2205 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Loopless! I am seriously loopless.
I love this phrase.
erika, truly, the difference in perception is probably of value to no one but me. Thing is, I'm a writer and someone who really thinks twice before posting a public review, and I have to remember, I'm nowhere near the majority on that one.
Jess M. - Apr 14, 2004 5:38:20 am PDT #2206 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Sorry to have dropped the article and run; I should know better than to do so right at the end of the work day. I forgot the Washington Post is a pain in the rear about registration...
erikaj - Apr 14, 2004 5:41:40 am PDT #2207 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
No, actually, I thought nobody ever read/posted them but losers...people have been missing my erudite literary reviews to no good purpose...I hate that when that happens.
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2004 7:00:54 am PDT #2208 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Oh, and for the record? I've never written a review of any of my own books, even for practice.
No big moral issues, or anything - just, the idea makes me blink. Although I thought it was funny as hell when Anne Coulter was outed a couple of years ago, for praising her own stuff at a review site under a psued - it might even have been Amazon.
And not only a review, but a fulsome review, a la "Anne Coulter has written a deeply penetrating work of social commentary. Everyone shoud read this book immediately! Her daring expose..."
Yada yada yada fishcakes, ad nauseum.