Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
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.)
(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.
"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
I had no idea that was serious at all. None. And I read all the time.
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.
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...
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.
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.
OMG. And I thought maybe I made her too narcissistic when I quite literally demonized her. Can't be done."We're very pretty."
erika, the woman is completely without shame.
Of course, since she's also without brains, without heart, without ethics, without scruples and without a soul, may as well toss shame into the mix as well.