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.

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[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

Clarification on Ebert's Law (http://www.journalfen.net/community/jurisimprudence/10082.html):

Derived from Roger Ebert, a film critic who is not actually in the filmmaking business, but nonetheless capable of judging a film's quality based on experience and his own taste. Anyone who says "If you don't like ____, I'd like to see you do better!" or a variation thereof is guilty of invoking Ebert's Law.

While Ebert's Law is obviously not a valid legal term, like Godwin's Law* it is useful in debate situations to identify holes in the opposing party's theories.


* "The first person in a debate to compare the opposing side to Hitler and/or Nazis loses the debate."

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Actually, Roger Ebert has written a few screenplays. (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001170/)

Mind you, this might only muddy matters further...

[klmorgan.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's actually where the law comes from.

As in, Ebert clearly isn't a good film writer.

But that doesn't appear to have stopped him from becoming a prolific and respected film critic.

Ebert's Law proves that you don't have to be personally involved in a situation/field of study/profession to have a valid opinion on it.