-
Setting Up A Paypal Donation
Resurrecting this deadjournal to provide a link for people who want to pay me for artwork.
-
I'm back to mocking badfics for now. Sorry.
Chapter 8 of Anana Banana by corset-rebellion-follower
Sporked!
I ran all the way out of the oasis.
And then she ran out of this fanfic! The end!
I couldn’t stay there any longer. I was already pushing it by coming in the first place. I feel so stupid! I knew this would happen! I wiped the crystal tears of Sueish doom from my eyes and sat down ( Read more... ) -
Lazy Author # 5: D. J. MacHale
I decided to change “Inept Professional Authors” to “Lazy Authors.” I really believe all of these authors are capable of better writing. They’re just not trying - it’s like they’re writing while sipping pina coladas in Jamaica. And the author in this review is the laziest yet.
Title: Pendragon: Book One: The Merchant of Death
Genre: YA/Tween ( Read more... ) -
Inept Professional Authors # 3 & 4: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Title: The Burning City
Genre: Fantasy
Plot: In an ancient city where magic and killer plants creep around, young Whandall dreams of a better life, but the system beats him down.
Problems:
Nate (Zaphod236) commented that he didn't like Footfall, one of Niven and Pournelle's other novels. Footfall wasn't available, so I picked up Burning City ( Read more... ) -
Inept Professional Author #2: Michael Crichton
Title: Next
Genre: Thriller / Science Fiction
Plot: I merely skimmed through the book (you didn't expect me to read the whole thing, did you?), so I couldn't make out a plot. The inside cover wasn't much help either.
Problems:I won't touch the plot for this critique, but there are still plenty of reasons to pick apart Crichton's writing. After a ( Read more... ) -
Inept Professional Author # 1: Ted Dekker
Introduction: I've decided to shift from mocking bad fanfiction to mocking bad novels. Novelists deserve more criticism anyway. They should know better.
Title: Blink
Genre: Christian/Thriller
Plot: Miriam, a Saudi princess, flies to America to escape an arranged marriage. There she meets Seth, a clairvoyant college kid who helps her stay one ( Read more... )