Blogflog: Dear Negative Reader
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lkh_lashoutsThis one should be subtitled "And Laurell takes the lead away from Anne in the Wank Race!" Prepare to spit fire.
Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/12/dear-negative-reader.html
Dear Negative Reader
Very mature, there. Anyone who disagrees with you or isn't on your side is "negative".
I'm sure there are other books out there that will make you happier than mine. There are books with less sex in them, God knows. There are books that don't make you think that hard. Books that don't push you past that comfortable envelope of the mundane.
"Books that don't make you think that hard"? WTF? I've heard people say they "skipped all the sex scenes" and still understood LKH novels, so clearly, higher brain function is not required. (No offence meant, naturally, to you brave souls who have skipped the sex and read the rest.) "Comfortable envelope of the mundane"? LKH has said that no one will die because it will hurt her/Anita. What the hell is that if not "comfort"? Also, her books have become so repetitive that I would call them mundane, except I'm sure the dictionary (yeah, the one she apparently evicted years ago) would knock on my door, kick my ass, and replace "mundane" with "tripe".
They are books that push my character and me to the edge and beyond of our comfort zones.
So damn not true it's not funny. As I said above, there's the no-death thing. Anita and Merry get to fuck whoever they please because of the ardeur or trying to get pregnant or because it's Tuesday. These characters are not pushed anywhere, let alone to the edge of their comfort zones. It's like a really bad version of Groundhog Day, where NOTHING CHANGES.
Let this post also put to rest the idea that I don't know that a small minority, albeit a loud minority, hates my series. I've known that for awhile.
Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, indeed.
I finally realized that I'm not going to understand this noisy, unpleasant minority of my fans. Because you are fans. Only fans would spend this much time and energy on anything. It's a strange kind of fan, a negative fan, but you spend so much time and energy hating and complaining that some part of you must love the hate and complaining.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I know I consider myself more of a walking warning. I actively discourage people from entering into LKHville at all costs.
And if you don't think you are the minority, well, sorry, guys but you are. I have the sales figures to prove it.
a) What's wrong with being a minority?
b) Sales figures are worth less than the paper they're printed on.
c) What's good doesn't always sell; what sells isn't always good.
Some people even ask for more police procedural. I want more, too
Newsflash: So do we. Oh, but wait. You can't get past the part of our criticism that says you're going downhill to realize that we actually think there's something worth following in either series. LKH has the same tunnelvision she accuses us of having.
The ardeur is a pain in my, and Anita's butt, too.
And, as lovely Jean-Claude would say, so many other places.
I've done this major metaphysical event. I won't just 'fix it' because it's hard to write around. God, knows, sometimes it is. But the arduer is moving along. I've got my fix in mind, but it's logical, not something that's merely convenient, or because some people hate it. But the arduer is not going away. If that's what you guys are wanting, then it ain't happening. Leave now, because more arduer awaits. The arduer is evolving, as are Anita's powers, but I don't see the arduer going poof.
"Evolving". You keep saying this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I have failed as a writer that you could kill them, and feel nothing.
I… you know, I don't think I'll say anything about this line. I will simply let it sit there in its glory, because she actually admitted a failure.
My characters are real to me in a way that makes me miss them.
Yeah, and that's fine, to a degree. BUT PEOPLE DIE. Considering the number of times she's wangsted about her grandmother and her mother and on and on, she knows. But you move on. Both of my grandfathers are dead and one of my grandmothers. Do I miss them? Horribly. But I've moved on. I realize that people are born, they live, they die. It's how it works. It's what makes vampires tragic.
Or maybe this will not move you, maybe you do not feel for the loneliness of the vampires that have not known love for centuries.
We do. Because we read lots of authors who actually deal with it. But the fact still remains that a) people die and b) characters aren't real. There are people at Lashouts who can attest to the fact that I get a bit weird about my characters. Those same people can also attest that I don't shy away from character death. People die. If you want your fictional world to feel truly real, characters have to die too.
Maybe you do not feel any of that. If you don't feel it, then I have failed you as a writer. I am sorry for that. If you do not feel the touch of my characters, the emotional pain, the emotional triumphs, then I have failed you. You should stop reading me. My writing does not weave magic for you.
This is turning into the worst Dear John letter ever. "It's not you. It's me. Oh, no, wait. It really is you. You don’t understand my vision!"
Go, and find someone who does speak to you. Someone who's characters are plot devices, so the books are neat, understandable, clinical, and utterly organized.
Oh, wait. It is us. Silly me, thinking Laurell might actually be accepting some blame!
They are big, messy books, a lot like life.
Except in real life, people die. They fall in and out of love. They move, they change jobs, they have kids.
Oh, and they shower.
I'll give you guys a few minutes to stop reading this, or to go into another room. I'll give you a few minutes, before I talk to the positive readers that are staying.
*L* Mass exodus, anyone?
here are hints about THE HARLEQUIN. First, Edward is in the book in a major way. Second, so is Olaf. Yeah, serial killer guy is back. Anita ends up feeding full blown arduer on three characters she's never been with before.
Oh joy. Run, Edward, run!
One of the wereanimal groups will betray Jean-Claude, and Anita.
Oh dear sweet gods. Please let Richard reclaim his spine, gather the wolves, and create some motherfuckin' havoc that Loki (and Samuel L. Jackson) would be proud of.
I hope it whetted your appetite
I… I…she…. used "whetted" instead of "wetted". I…. okay, who slipped her a dictionary when I wasn't looking?
Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/12/dear-negative-reader.html
Dear Negative Reader
Very mature, there. Anyone who disagrees with you or isn't on your side is "negative".
I'm sure there are other books out there that will make you happier than mine. There are books with less sex in them, God knows. There are books that don't make you think that hard. Books that don't push you past that comfortable envelope of the mundane.
"Books that don't make you think that hard"? WTF? I've heard people say they "skipped all the sex scenes" and still understood LKH novels, so clearly, higher brain function is not required. (No offence meant, naturally, to you brave souls who have skipped the sex and read the rest.) "Comfortable envelope of the mundane"? LKH has said that no one will die because it will hurt her/Anita. What the hell is that if not "comfort"? Also, her books have become so repetitive that I would call them mundane, except I'm sure the dictionary (yeah, the one she apparently evicted years ago) would knock on my door, kick my ass, and replace "mundane" with "tripe".
They are books that push my character and me to the edge and beyond of our comfort zones.
So damn not true it's not funny. As I said above, there's the no-death thing. Anita and Merry get to fuck whoever they please because of the ardeur or trying to get pregnant or because it's Tuesday. These characters are not pushed anywhere, let alone to the edge of their comfort zones. It's like a really bad version of Groundhog Day, where NOTHING CHANGES.
Let this post also put to rest the idea that I don't know that a small minority, albeit a loud minority, hates my series. I've known that for awhile.
Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, indeed.
I finally realized that I'm not going to understand this noisy, unpleasant minority of my fans. Because you are fans. Only fans would spend this much time and energy on anything. It's a strange kind of fan, a negative fan, but you spend so much time and energy hating and complaining that some part of you must love the hate and complaining.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I know I consider myself more of a walking warning. I actively discourage people from entering into LKHville at all costs.
And if you don't think you are the minority, well, sorry, guys but you are. I have the sales figures to prove it.
a) What's wrong with being a minority?
b) Sales figures are worth less than the paper they're printed on.
c) What's good doesn't always sell; what sells isn't always good.
Some people even ask for more police procedural. I want more, too
Newsflash: So do we. Oh, but wait. You can't get past the part of our criticism that says you're going downhill to realize that we actually think there's something worth following in either series. LKH has the same tunnelvision she accuses us of having.
The ardeur is a pain in my, and Anita's butt, too.
And, as lovely Jean-Claude would say, so many other places.
I've done this major metaphysical event. I won't just 'fix it' because it's hard to write around. God, knows, sometimes it is. But the arduer is moving along. I've got my fix in mind, but it's logical, not something that's merely convenient, or because some people hate it. But the arduer is not going away. If that's what you guys are wanting, then it ain't happening. Leave now, because more arduer awaits. The arduer is evolving, as are Anita's powers, but I don't see the arduer going poof.
"Evolving". You keep saying this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I have failed as a writer that you could kill them, and feel nothing.
I… you know, I don't think I'll say anything about this line. I will simply let it sit there in its glory, because she actually admitted a failure.
My characters are real to me in a way that makes me miss them.
Yeah, and that's fine, to a degree. BUT PEOPLE DIE. Considering the number of times she's wangsted about her grandmother and her mother and on and on, she knows. But you move on. Both of my grandfathers are dead and one of my grandmothers. Do I miss them? Horribly. But I've moved on. I realize that people are born, they live, they die. It's how it works. It's what makes vampires tragic.
Or maybe this will not move you, maybe you do not feel for the loneliness of the vampires that have not known love for centuries.
We do. Because we read lots of authors who actually deal with it. But the fact still remains that a) people die and b) characters aren't real. There are people at Lashouts who can attest to the fact that I get a bit weird about my characters. Those same people can also attest that I don't shy away from character death. People die. If you want your fictional world to feel truly real, characters have to die too.
Maybe you do not feel any of that. If you don't feel it, then I have failed you as a writer. I am sorry for that. If you do not feel the touch of my characters, the emotional pain, the emotional triumphs, then I have failed you. You should stop reading me. My writing does not weave magic for you.
This is turning into the worst Dear John letter ever. "It's not you. It's me. Oh, no, wait. It really is you. You don’t understand my vision!"
Go, and find someone who does speak to you. Someone who's characters are plot devices, so the books are neat, understandable, clinical, and utterly organized.
Oh, wait. It is us. Silly me, thinking Laurell might actually be accepting some blame!
They are big, messy books, a lot like life.
Except in real life, people die. They fall in and out of love. They move, they change jobs, they have kids.
Oh, and they shower.
I'll give you guys a few minutes to stop reading this, or to go into another room. I'll give you a few minutes, before I talk to the positive readers that are staying.
*L* Mass exodus, anyone?
here are hints about THE HARLEQUIN. First, Edward is in the book in a major way. Second, so is Olaf. Yeah, serial killer guy is back. Anita ends up feeding full blown arduer on three characters she's never been with before.
Oh joy. Run, Edward, run!
One of the wereanimal groups will betray Jean-Claude, and Anita.
Oh dear sweet gods. Please let Richard reclaim his spine, gather the wolves, and create some motherfuckin' havoc that Loki (and Samuel L. Jackson) would be proud of.
I hope it whetted your appetite
I… I…she…. used "whetted" instead of "wetted". I…. okay, who slipped her a dictionary when I wasn't looking?
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Date: 2006-12-31 07:46 pm (UTC)I enjoy your community's mission statement, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ::does so::
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Date: 2006-12-31 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-31 09:15 pm (UTC)Mostly, my rage is centred on the whole, "If you can't see that my writing is complex and thought-provoking and CHALLENGING to all you Plebeians, you can just STFU and find another author! One who ISN'T ALL THESE THINGS!" and the bit about not caring about characters who die.
Dammit, Laurell - the whole point in killing off a character is to provoke an emotional response! I don't know about any other writers in this comm, but I sure as hell want people to be UPSET by character death. It's meant to push the other characters into action and reaction.
I know I make a point of writing a death scene for all my characters. I want to know how it'd happen and what everyone's reaction would be. I've gotten quite a few surprising responses from characters and whole new plotlines open up that I'd probably have to fight every. fucking. inch to achieve if I let people live. I just hope I can pull off some of the moves I want to make with the right zest and punch that they require - because while the thought blows my mind, it's up to me as a writer to try and blow my reader's mind too - or at the very least, get them to empathise with what the other characters do.
So no, it's not that I don't care about my characters so that's why I kill them - it's totally the opposite. I care - a lot - and if killing some of them is what it takes to push the others where I need them to be, so be it!
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Date: 2007-01-02 08:55 pm (UTC)(And I've seen you do it, and it works, and I've seen other good writers do it, and it works...)
And LKH is not a good writer, she doesn't do it, and that does not work...
-Dira-
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Date: 2007-01-01 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-01 04:35 am (UTC)Or maybe they'll send her a memo to quit acting like a 10 year old.
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Date: 2006-12-31 10:43 pm (UTC)Edward... and who else?
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Date: 2006-12-31 11:55 pm (UTC)I'm rubber and your glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.
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Date: 2007-01-01 01:25 am (UTC)AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I haven't even read her books and I suspect that I've read much more out-there stuff than she cranks out.
Two words: Naked Lunch.
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Date: 2007-01-01 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-01 04:19 am (UTC)Shakespeare called. He wants his line back.
-Just passing by whilst enjoying the wank. I've actually only read excerpts from her books; I'm just a fan of her antics.
Dear Ms Hamilton and Ma Petite Enterprises (Part 1)
Date: 2007-01-01 04:51 am (UTC)I would like to come out to say, I do not like being called Negative Reader. I am a critical reader. I critique and criticize. Just because you don’t agree with my opinion doesn’t mean you need to act like children by name calling.
Anyway, I must say you are like a car crash. I know you have at one point been stuck in traffic because of two cars hitting each other. As you slowly pass the mess, you can’t help but take a look and in doing so slow traffic down. This is what you are too many people around the world beside bat-shit crazy.
Once upon a time, yes, we WERE fans. WERE being the main word.
I found this quote about Star Trek a while back ago and found the words much like what many of us have been trying to tell you.
"Many of us who are fans of Anita enjoy Anita despite its faults, not because we think Anita is perfect and not because we do not think it cannot be improved. To criticize Anita, then, means that we enjoy Anita enough to want it to be the best it can be, and we wish to point out the flaws in hope of improvement (that is, to learn from mistakes, rather than to pretend they do not exist). If we didn't care, we wouldn't criticize."
What you don’t understand is many of us HAVE stopped reading the book. We can’t read it anymore because we begin to lose brain cells by how terrible the books have become. Just because we do not read the books doesn’t mean we can not continue to criticize a series we have spent not only money but out time to reading and caring for a series. You, as a writer, have failed us as readers.
You have turned your work into nothing by trash. The books no longer have a plot. The characters are no longer true to what you FIRST wrote them as. There is no tension or mystery in your series like there once was. Tension doesn’t just mean sex either. There is no suspense for you crime scene. No great action for your fighting scenes. You instead write fade to black (i.e MICAH) and over 30 pages of detail sex scenes throughout you books which are nothing but filler. There is no reality inside you series anymore to care for.
Everyone lives because you can not comfort dead. Maybe this is because you still harbor pain from losing your mother at a young age or your grandmother, but you are killing your series one day at a time since you won’t write death.
Life and death are hand-in-hand. It is the saying: “'On the Day You Were Born, You Begin to Die.”
Anita lives a life where waking up could be her last. She is now apart of the police world (kind of has been since book 1), but she takes risks with her life. She is around bad people and monsters alike. Now (since NIC-the newest book) the world Anita lives in, no one dies but the bad guys and evening than not so much. This is preposterous to believe a world with more bad guys not to mention evil under foot doesn’t die.
In reality, police officers are shot at, hit at, and see more dead things than they should ever see. Heck, there are officers who die. It is sad but it happens. He did his/her job and got killed by saving the world in some small way.
But why isn’t Anita following reality? Why isn’t your book coming anywhere close to what reality is? Are you hiding from death? Why aren’t people she loves dying?
In life, you fall in and out of love, people die, people get hurt, you make friends, and you lose friends. Anita has done none of these things. The last person to dies was in book 1 with Philip, but you have made a promise to yourself and to Anita (which makes me question your sanity) no one she cares for will die. Well, honey you know first hand fate, god, or the powers that be will take a love one from you without asking. Why haven’t your books done the same?
Dear Ms Hamilton and Ma Petite Enterprises (Part 2)
Date: 2007-01-01 04:52 am (UTC)First of all, you don’t visit your board why would you be involved on another board? This concept of you saying if you didn’t like a series you don’t go to the author’s board. You would have to first not like a series and two you would have to use your computer other than writing porn. Now I know this is something hard for you to get off your addiction but there are steps and classes and places you can get help.
You stated: I'm not going to get it. I finally realized that I'm not going to understand this noisy, unpleasant minority of my fans.
The reason why you don’t understand is because you DON'T WANT to understand. You like sitting in your tower away from the world. You enjoy hearing the “I love _(insert your favorite character)_” “I love the sex” “I am with you on hating _ (Insert the any female character, Richard, or Dolph)_” “This is my favorite book because of all the sex.” You just can’t accept the fans criticizing and picking out how wrong you are. Us, unpleasant minority of fans, can see through your bull-shit. Until you get off you high horse, you will never understand why we are the way we are.
You mention about us standing in line to tell you we don’t like the book but than you say the vast majorities who stand in line love the books. Huh, do you evening think before you open your mouth? The people who don’t like the books are standing in line for Dresden or another series which hasn’t decided to make a Mary Sue out of the world.
Now going back to your series:
ARDEUR. A-R-D-E-U-R ... This is how you spell the world.
This is a ridiculous plot devise you have made by forcing Anita to prostitute herself. You have brought women suffering back. In the end, Anita is being raped every time she has sex with someone because of the “date-rape” drug (i.e the ardeur) within her system. Nice one.
You don’t want to fix Anita being rape (i.e. the ardeur) because you enjoy this fantasy world of sex (i.e. BDSM Bondage & Discipline (B&D), Domination & Submission (D&S), Sadism & Masochism (or Sadomasochism) (S&M) ) It isn’t uncomfortable for you to write. This is YOUR fantasy world. You don’t truly care what anyone says in the end. You like fulfilling you fantasy by changing Anita into a prostitute for yourself. If this is what you want to do, stop with the bait and switch and call the series for what it is – PORN. Don’t sell your shit as a science-fiction about vampires and werewolves. Your books are worst than the porn movies you see on HBO. Stop pretending.
Dear Ms Hamilton and Ma Petite Enterprises (Part 3)
Date: 2007-01-01 04:53 am (UTC)First, your characters are not real.
Second, vampires are not real either.
Are you going to stand up in the middle of a crowded street and tell everyone you are Jesus too?
You wonder why we continue to read you blogs. I can tell you mostly because of stupid shit you say. The continue car crash just gets better and better with each new blog. You and Anne Rice have made an item of what author’s shouldn’t do. So please, open you mouth again or better yet, go get Darla to open hers again. You will continue to make people laugh.
Oh and no I didn’t leave after your go away negative readers. I stayed for the ending of the show. The car crash isn’t over with yet.
You have just got rid of your ace. Edward was the key to everything. He could have very well made a bridge to us haters. Instead, you have killed the one character that would have saved your butt.
Good job!!! You just screwed yourself over.
From,
A Criticizer
I love you all with the fire of a 1,000 burning suns!
Date: 2007-01-01 05:52 am (UTC)I don't hate HER, mind, having never met her. I hate the plotless books.
To be fair, I never classified them as Great Literature. I'm a voracious reader (or Tonstant Weader, if you prefer) and usually I read Literature, but occasionally I deliberately seek out bubblegum for the brain. In other words, there are books you can take to grad school and read out in the quad between classes and not be ashamed that you are seen reading them, and books that you buy to read in the bathtub simply because reading the shampoo bottle over and over 4,500 times get boring and you're compelled to READ SOMETHING due to your personal mental tics and quirks. In classification A we have classics and "edgy" writers like Sedaris, Palahniuk, Welsh, Tarte, Helprin, et cetera. In classification B we have Stephen King, Dean (R.) Koontz and LKH. Though I'd rather be caught reading King than LKH any day. He can, at least, spell and frequently has a plot in there with the "tl;dr" bits which, despite being "tl" I do actually read.
It's getting embarrassing, really.
I like detective novels, and books about metaphysical / fantasical subjects (when well done, and I am picky) and murder mysteries / true crime, and all of these generally are brain bubblegum and fine for what they are. When I happened upon LKH's series and it appeared to be a combo of the above, I was hopeful. In fairness, the first few books actually had a semblance of plot and some character development (of a sort), even if the most inobservant morons on the planet would find it worrisome that Anita Blake is written to resemble the full-colour ego-photo of LKH on the book cover. (Quick guide to rating book suckiness: no photo=serious literature, maybe a textbook; small black and white photo=possibly serious literature, but publisher appears worried that minions won't buy book without brand recognition of broody author glamour shot; colour photo=serious wankiness abounds; full-colour full-size cover shot of author=pure and unadulterated crapola. (If author's full colour photo is on the FRONT cover, it is the lowest form of dreck imaginable; clearly LKH is but one rung above the lowest depths of shite because her photo is "only" full-sized and in full colour on the BACK of the books.) Examine your bookshelf and see the truth of this for yourself.)
I, too, am amused by the notion that it takes Special People to appreciate the genius literary talent that is LKH and that anyone who has a legitimate gripe about the horrible proofreading (one thing the books are good for is keeping your red pencils sharpened), the lack of plot progression / actual plot content dwindling from 75% of total book content to about 5% or less, and the increasingly lengthy and increasingly boring sexual hang-up therapy session wankiness from Anita Sue Hamilton's sexual quirks and kinks (none of which make for enlightening or engaging reading) is mean-spirited, hateful, negative and/or clueless.
Whenever authors attack their fanbase, that's a sure sign that their books are reaching Critical Suckfulness Mass and are due to Implode from the weight of accumulated crapfulness any day now. Duck and cover! Duck and cover! Shitbomb counting down to zero! Plot is missing and considered dead. Characters now so two-dimensional that they will disappear if viewed from the side. Further regession into inevitable one-dimensionality will involve characters being sucked into the vacuous vacuums of their own lovingly-described genitalia and/or rectums. Warning: will also contain lovingly detailed descriptions of angsty vampires and their undead erect penises. Woo yay!
Re: I love you all with the fire of a 1,000 burning suns!
Date: 2007-01-01 10:40 am (UTC)Of the many, many points of contention, it was this one that made my brains start to dribble out of my ears,
"Someone who's characters are plot devices..."
This from the woman who has now weighted a previously entertaining - if, as has been said, flawed - series so heavily in the favour of a plot device, if you took it away nothing would bloody happen!
This from the stable of so many men you can't keep the names straight because they have -no sodding character- and do -nothing- except wangst, ask stupid questions and play long-haired sex toy with the so-called 'heroine'!
We are talking a freaking calender event with national holiday if they get a decent line, or say something smart. -That- isn't a plot device?!
-breathes- [/end rant]
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Date: 2007-01-01 07:25 pm (UTC)The super, god like author descended from the heights of her ivory tower, arriving in glorious splendor. The earth shook and trembled the moment the great deity author set foot into the mundane world of mere mortals. She wielded her author words like an avenging flaming sword of destruction and laid waste to the evil horde that dare invade the promised land of her chosen Troo fans. Her mighty words cut a swath of destruction, sending the malevolent and wicked spawn fleeing in a flurry of wailing and gnashing of teeth as they beat a hasty retreat and slunk back into the dark neither regions of the Internet from which the sprang. Once again, the great and all-powerful Hamilton rescues all the fragile and delicate Troo believers of the world, saving them from the nefarious clutches and designs of those "evil negative readers". All praise to the glory of the deity Hamilton, the world of Troo's is all bright and shinny once again.
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Date: 2007-01-02 09:08 pm (UTC)The sequel to this must be the revenge of the haters, you know that, right?
Creeping slowly from beneath their rocks, the myriad horde come to show the troo believers just what's what! They say unto the great Suethor "Yea, verily, woman, thy last book sucketh, biteth, and bloweth!" They then proceed with much wailing and tearing of pages to show just how, where, and why, to which the great deity author respondeth "I know you are, but what am I?"
This maketh little sense, and lo! Troo Believers slowly wander off, perhaps in search of alternate deity, even as those false believers posessed of what one might call a mind shudder, and recoil from the great diety Suethor...
-Dira-
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Date: 2007-01-03 11:28 pm (UTC)Congratulations, LKH! You've just activated the Pet Peeve Machine(tm)! Remember darling, "who's" is a contraction of who and is, and "whose" denotes possession!
Link Fix (part 1)
Date: 2009-08-28 11:04 am (UTC)The blog being flogged here can be found at http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.php/site/comments/dear_negative_reader/
Dear Negative Reader
Dear Negative Reader, It's funny, I almost never go on the board. I think I can count on one hand the times I've seen the message board. I would pick tonight. I'd had a nice evening out with friends. I'd read a chapter of Trin's new Fairy Realm book to her. Then for some reason, we look at the board. I look at the board. Let me say that all of you that hate the books, and have decided not to read them anymore, I am happy for you. I know that when a book series that I read takes a turn I don't like I stop reading it. I put it down and I walk away, and that's that. If you're unhappy with my books, and have decided you never want to read another thing that I write; great. I mean that. Life is too short to read books you don't like, so if you're not having a good time, stop doing it. I'm sure there are other books out there that will make you happier than mine. There are books with less sex in them, God knows. There are books that don't make you think that hard. Books that don't push you past that comfortable envelope of the mundane. If you want to be comforted, don't read my books. They aren't comfortable books. They are books that push my character and me to the edge and beyond of our comfort zones. If that's not want you want, then stop reading. Put my books away with other things that frighten and confuse or just piss you off. I have my list of stuff like that. So good for you, you've decided not to read me anymore. Good luck, God speed. But let me say, one thing puzzles me. When I decide not to read an author, or series again. I don't go on their message board and keep talking about the books I don't want to read. I don't say that I stopped reading at a certain book, but strangely, am still able to talk in detail about books that have come out since then, thus making people reading my post wonder how I know so many details if I haven't read the books. Either A: You have read the books, and don't want to admit it. Or, B: You haven't read the books and you are taking your opinion from the posts of others who have read the books, and hated them. Those are the only choices I've been able to come up with. If there is a more logical explanation, I can't find it. Either you are closet readers, or you're letting others read them and report back to you like negative scouting.
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Link Fix (part 2)
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