Soon he'll be a real boy!
Okay, well, I know everybody in the fandom side of things knows about this by now, but I feel compelled, nay, obliged to post about it, if only for the benefit of my other, non-fandom friends who will surely enjoy it as much as I do.
Yeah. Anne Rice, huh?
1. One would assume that the Amazon.com review boards are neither the time nor the place for wank (although I know better now, thank you very much), although apparently they really, really are. (Scroll down to read the review of 'Blood Canticle') *cough*
Best bits:
"You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective. Indeed, you aren't even reading it. You are projecting your own limitations on it. And you are giving a whole new meaning to the words "wide readership." And you have strained my Dickensean principles to the max. "
Um. Hehehhe. Dickensian principles? Heh.
And I just can't say anything more than that, even as an English student because - where to begin?
"And this book is most certainly written -- every word of it -- by me. If and when I can't write a book on my own, you'll know about it. And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself. I fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, novel writing is a virtuoso performance. It is not a collaborative art."
Painfully evident. And the main reason I can't even pick up one of her books.
"But I experienced an intimacy with the character in those scenes that shattered all prior restraints, and when one is writing one does have to continuously and courageously fight a destructive tendency to inhibition and restraint. Getting really close to the subject matter is the achievement of only great art. Now, if it doesn't appeal to you, fine. You don't enjoy it? Read somebody else. But your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. And you have used this site as if it were a public urinal to publish falsehood and lies. I'll never challenge your democratic freedom to do so, and yes, I'm answering you, but for what it's worth, be assured of the utter contempt I feel for you, especially those of you who post anonymously (and perhaps repeatedly?) and how glad I am that this book is the last one in a series that has invited your hateful and ugly responses. "
There are so no words...
2. I love the internet. Because there are, despite all evidence to the contrary, intelligent and amusing people. Rock.
3. OMFG I <3333 f_w Hey, lookit, it's like some weird language that makes no sense whatsoever... Yeah, just click it, if you've got a couple of spare hours it's like crack.
4. Also, Neil Gaiman is so teh coolest:
"I think Anne Rice going on Amazon and lambasting her critics was undoubtedly a very brave and satisfying thing for her to do, was every bit as sensible as kicking a tar baby, and, if ever I do something like that, please shoot me."
5. And just to dredge things up, my eyes are now bleeding terribly and not at all in a cool way. :( *hugs paragraph breaks and coherency*
Also, ladyreo, I'm really terribly sorry, but I just haven't laughed this hard in ages, and thought the wealth needed sharing. Or something :)
Also, in other news, my life is boring and stuff. And I am ostensibly on holidays, which means a week and a bit of avoiding homework and feeling awfully guilty about it. And darthbessie set me a deadline of Tuesday on any fic, because I never finish anything. And I don't foresee this strategy working either.
Man, sometimes I think I really need to grow up and get my life together. Party at my house, Monday night. :) ...Well, kind of...
Yeah. Anne Rice, huh?
1. One would assume that the Amazon.com review boards are neither the time nor the place for wank (although I know better now, thank you very much), although apparently they really, really are. (Scroll down to read the review of 'Blood Canticle') *cough*
Best bits:
"You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective. Indeed, you aren't even reading it. You are projecting your own limitations on it. And you are giving a whole new meaning to the words "wide readership." And you have strained my Dickensean principles to the max. "
Um. Hehehhe. Dickensian principles? Heh.
And I just can't say anything more than that, even as an English student because - where to begin?
"And this book is most certainly written -- every word of it -- by me. If and when I can't write a book on my own, you'll know about it. And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself. I fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, novel writing is a virtuoso performance. It is not a collaborative art."
Painfully evident. And the main reason I can't even pick up one of her books.
"But I experienced an intimacy with the character in those scenes that shattered all prior restraints, and when one is writing one does have to continuously and courageously fight a destructive tendency to inhibition and restraint. Getting really close to the subject matter is the achievement of only great art. Now, if it doesn't appeal to you, fine. You don't enjoy it? Read somebody else. But your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. And you have used this site as if it were a public urinal to publish falsehood and lies. I'll never challenge your democratic freedom to do so, and yes, I'm answering you, but for what it's worth, be assured of the utter contempt I feel for you, especially those of you who post anonymously (and perhaps repeatedly?) and how glad I am that this book is the last one in a series that has invited your hateful and ugly responses. "
There are so no words...
2. I love the internet. Because there are, despite all evidence to the contrary, intelligent and amusing people. Rock.
3. OMFG I <3333 f_w Hey, lookit, it's like some weird language that makes no sense whatsoever... Yeah, just click it, if you've got a couple of spare hours it's like crack.
4. Also, Neil Gaiman is so teh coolest:
"I think Anne Rice going on Amazon and lambasting her critics was undoubtedly a very brave and satisfying thing for her to do, was every bit as sensible as kicking a tar baby, and, if ever I do something like that, please shoot me."
5. And just to dredge things up, my eyes are now bleeding terribly and not at all in a cool way. :( *hugs paragraph breaks and coherency*
Also, ladyreo, I'm really terribly sorry, but I just haven't laughed this hard in ages, and thought the wealth needed sharing. Or something :)
Also, in other news, my life is boring and stuff. And I am ostensibly on holidays, which means a week and a bit of avoiding homework and feeling awfully guilty about it. And darthbessie set me a deadline of Tuesday on any fic, because I never finish anything. And I don't foresee this strategy working either.
Man, sometimes I think I really need to grow up and get my life together. Party at my house, Monday night. :) ...Well, kind of...