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[serpentstar]

An object lesson in why you shouldn't expect professionally creative people to just do you freebie favours in their chosen field:

I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.

It's quite funny, but the Dr Suess style poetic version, read by Harlan Ellison, is even funnier.

Perhaps rather cruelly, but quite fairly, the Telegraph has the 20 Worst Dan Brown

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[karohemd]

*giggles at Brown quotes*
Re: 9. Additionally, she's French. Fuel efficiency on the continent is measured in litres/100km so she would have used that as it's not a conversion you can do in your head easily.

[serpentstar]

Me too -- also managed to avoid the movies.

Incidentally, BBC Radio 4 had a very lovely & learned piss-taking review of the latest Dan Brown novel -- audible here:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/frontrow/frontrow_20090918-1502a.mp3

[greylock]

Me too -- also managed to avoid the movies.

I was dragged into the first one.

There was some sort of stupid car chase.

[sobrique]

I did read Da Vinci code, just to see what the fuss was about.

Answer: Not very much. The only thing it really had going for it was short chapters all ending on cliff hangars. Which is great if you've a short attention span, and no real conception of what makes a plot. Which I guess is why it did well.

The emperor has new clothes!

[greylock]

"a picnic, rally and "cuddle party"
"There are still no role models; you never see polys in soaps."
"I believe in trying ' to break down power hierarchies in society"

It's like they were deliberately picking phrases that piss me off.

[serpentstar]

Just because the newspaper's article was relatively sympathetic doesn't mean that they found only sane, sensible poly people to interview.

(Ye gods! Polys in soaps! What an appalling prospect; it's bad enough that so many monogamous people seem to base their lives around fictional characters, and assume they need as much drama in their lives as said fictional characters, without poly people starting to do the same.)

[valkyriekaren]

I believe in trying to break down power hierarchies in society

No, you're absolutely right, it's really annoying when people don't know their place.

[greylock]

No, you're absolutely right, it's really annoying when people don't know their place.

Funny, I was just telling my house boy that.

[timgray]

Never read any Brown, so was curious... The paper's being over-harsh on some of those, but the overall impression is that there's some decent stuff in there if he just took a deep breath and untangled it.

And yes, soaps are, in general, pollution.