If only they'd said "Don't read it -- it's not very good."
Might have worked better.
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§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 4:59:51 am PST #7206 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 16, 2005 5:06:45 am PST #7207 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Might have worked better.
Maybe they are trying reverse psychology along the lines of "So THIS is what the church has been banning all these years? I haven't been missing a thing."
JohnSweden - Mar 16, 2005 5:20:07 am PST #7208 of 10002
I can't even.
If only they'd said "Don't read it -- it's not very good."
Might have worked better.
That did work on me. Not the church saying it (heaven forfend any church take that kind of interest in me), but y'know, literate people saying it was crap. That, and my natural anti-bandwagon defenses.
Megan E. - Mar 16, 2005 5:26:21 am PST #7209 of 10002
The Catholic Church came out with a statement that the faithful should not read or buy The DaVinci Code.
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 7:01:10 am PST #7210 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
NSM according to the author, which bugs.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 16, 2005 7:17:05 am PST #7211 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh wow, that Rumor Has It cover is in pretty graphic bad taste, isn't it? Though the hilariously over-literal Be My Baby gets my vote. (Well, over-literal unless the author has very squicky Nabokovian aspirations...)
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
Organized religions are perhaps not the best judges of the difference between fiction and history...
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 16, 2005 7:19:42 am PST #7212 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh wow, that Rumor Has It cover is in pretty graphic bad taste, isn't it? Though the hilariously over-literal Be My Baby gets my vote. (Well, over-literal unless the author has very squicky Nabokovian aspirations...)
Susan W. - Mar 16, 2005 7:37:25 am PST #7213 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh wow, that Rumor Has It cover is in pretty graphic bad taste, isn't it? Though the hilariously over-literal Be My Baby gets my vote.
Yeah, I waffled between those two and the giant ghost butt before voting for the latter because I nominated it in the first place and wanted it to get props. Oh, and I considered voting for All Keyed Up because of the skanky be-mulleted guy.
I just hope that if/when my time comes, the cover art gods will be kind and give me something deserving of the Best ballot rather than the Worst. But I'll settle for no actual sex-having on the cover and getting the hero's uniform the right color.
Betsy HP - Mar 16, 2005 7:44:01 am PST #7214 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
Yeah? That didn't stop them from banning a heck of a lot of other books, including everything by Rousseau.
P.M. Marc - Mar 16, 2005 9:23:05 am PST #7215 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Oh, and I considered voting for All Keyed Up because of the skanky be-mulleted guy.
That's the one I voted for. Nothing topped Skanky McMullet in that line up.
The two-part covers, I voted for the one that opened to something OTHER than a man/woman/couple in a state of extreme undress (I went for the chick on the roof looking all master-spyriffic).