I had no idea that was serious at all. None. And I read all the time.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Apr 13, 2004 4:45:09 pm PDT #2204 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
erikaj - Apr 14, 2004 7:03:56 am PDT #2209 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
OMG. And I thought maybe I made her too narcissistic when I quite literally demonized her. Can't be done."We're very pretty."
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2004 7:09:09 am PDT #2210 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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.
erikaj - Apr 14, 2004 7:15:38 am PDT #2211 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
It's mindblowing to a Bayliss like me, who sometimes can be immobilized by maybe, sort of having said something embarrassing five years ago, that such "people" exist.
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2004 7:17:34 am PDT #2212 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Heh. What blows my mind about the woman is that she used to dance at Grateful Dead shows.
As an original Deadhead (we're talking 1968 or thereabouts), I'm surprised the miserable moo-cow wasn't struck by lightning.
And her books suck, too. Of course, so does she, which might explain how she got a book deal in the first place.
Katerina Bee - Apr 14, 2004 7:25:23 am PDT #2213 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Whooo... now that was a such a fabulous diss upon the Coulter thing, I would COMM it if I weren't feeling reticent today.