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[machine_dove]

I know the Truth when I see it.

[EDIT] Ok, there are bad books, and there are bad books. But it takes some kind of extra-special-sooperbad book to tell you not to mock the phallus. Can we mock the book instead?

Apparently not:

Publicly mocking an author whom you have never met, based on word of mouth about one chapter of a book you haven’t actually read is ridiculously childish behaviour, and totally disrespectful of a fellow writer.

If you read the little bit in that first link, I think you'll agree: "And in most cases, there wasn’t any actual mocking invovled — reading the text was enough to send everyone into fits of laughter, all without any commentary."

Quite, quite true - no commentary is necessary, that really speaks for itself, painfully. Amazon, however, has a suprisingly good rating for it, although it's based off of only one review. Anyone feeling brave enough to read it? ^_^;;

[EDIT2] Oh my god, I CAN NOT STOP LAUGHING! The mental images start with a roster dressed up like Spidey's nemesis, and go rapidly down hill from there. I'm randomly busting out in fits of snicker so hard my eyes are watering. Venom cock!?!

[EDIT3] Oh dear, it appears that this is not an isolated incident of spectacularly bad writing. She did what with that carrot? Again, no commentary is necessary. Just...wow.

Comments

[izuko.livejournal.com]

There are times when it is not just acceptable, but a moral obligation to mock a fellow author - generally in hopes of culling the herd by dissuading them from ever again writing so much as a grocery list.

[pyromaniac-ks.livejournal.com]

*slams head repeatedly against desk*

[brentdax.livejournal.com]

This is why I avoid books where the publisher part of the ISBN (after the first dash) is longer than the book part (after the second).