Comment From A LKH Fangirl

[zgirl714.livejournal.com]

Um. Snotty, much? Jeez. How many best-sellers and devoted fans do you have? Hmmm. Let me guess. None? Good grief. The arrogance of youth is just astonishing. Once you’ve got over a dozen books on international best-seller lists then feel free to critique your heart out. But this is clearly a case of "Those who can, do. But those who can’t, sit around and b*tch about those who do." Ms. Hamilton’s stories remain cutting edge. And if you did a random check of the top 50 books on the NYT List, you’d find typos galore. It’s certainly not limited to laurell K. Hamilton novels. Reading is about pleasuring the mind, not hunting down misplaced punctuation. If it causes an emotional repsonse, then it’s a success. Hyper-focusing and being "nit-picky" is ridiculous. Go write the kind of literary perfection you so obviously expect and then come back and trash talk Ms. Hamilton.

That is the comment from Elizabeth on this post.

Comments

[havocthecat]

Ebert's Law?

[havocthecat]

Google it.

Or I could ask the person who made the obscure reference, thereby tactfully alerting said person that the reference was, in fact, not a universal one.

Basically, the gist is [snip]

Thank you!

[havocthecat]

I was curious, I asked. That's really all. You're the one who's decided I should google it, instead of dreadfully imposing on you.

I seems to me that you're being oversensitive about the issue. Can we get back to bitching about LKH's latest foibles instead of snarking at each other over silly stuff?

[havocthecat]

*dies giggling* Isn't it just? But I'm about to have dinner, and I don't want to spoil my appetite.

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware that fandom wank's policies applied here.

[rantingmule.livejournal.com]

Neither was I. :( Kinda a depressing thought.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

You could ask Pith, but I'm sure they don't.

Seriously guys, plz to not be picking at each other. Laurell is fair game, but snarking about fellow members is just Not On.

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, thank you. That self-important "eat your own" bullshit is what drove me out of communities like fandom wank, and if this community ever got this way, I'd be out of here in a heartbeat.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't have a problem with it in Fandom Wank, but dude--we ain't Fandom Wank. We're here to mock one specific target (well, two or three if you count Jon and Darla; more including the trufen), not to consider the whole world as fair game. It's lkh_lashouts, not lkh_wank. Leave your Hive Vagina at the door, plz.

I LIKE Fandom Wank, and find it endlessly entertaining (and would give a significant body part for an account, sigh!), but their rules don't apply to this community.

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

I used to like fandom wank, and then it went from being funny to just being ugly and mean and pretentious. Some of the older people there still get it, but those are few and far between these days.

[thesaneminority.livejournal.com]

I'm more confused about the fact that you told her to Google it, and then explained it to her. Isn't that negating your entire point?

[salveo-opes.livejournal.com]

Unlike some people who can't look up the word pastiche. LOL

[onyx-noir.livejournal.com]

Er...my connection sucks booties. Sorry.

[klmorgan.livejournal.com]

That's WHY it's named after him, actually. As in, just because he's horrible at making movies (see exhibits A and B) doesn't negate his ability to be a very sound movie critic.