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Cleolinda Jones ([info]cleolinda) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2013-04-28 15:08:00


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Entry tags:godwin alert, person: anne rice

Decoupaging the text from the wrong perspective?
A blogger buys a used, beat-up copy of Anne Rice's Pandora, ends up not liking it, and decides to get crafty with it. (Well, she also says, "Don’t be mad at me, even if Pandora really is one of the worst Anne Rice novels then it’s still better written than Twilight. Just not by as much as you think.")

Anne Rice finds out.

Anne Rice links to the blog on her Facebook.

You know what happens next.


HOW DARE YOU EVEN COMPARE SHITTY ASS STEPHANIE MEYER TO THE QUALITY WORK THAT IS ANNE RICE HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU FUCKING HAG, I HOPE YOU GET HERPES

INSANE. To destroy a book like that is honestly the most disrespectful, idiotic thing anyone could ever do. An opinion is an opinion, but to do that… loved the rich descriptive narrative and historical context and character development (the other reason I read them).

Disgraceful.

This review is garbage. If you get this emotional then you are not reviewing a book, you are having a mental breakdown. I am left wondering not what is not right about the novel by Anne Rice, but what is mentally wrong with the
  [next comment] Person who wrote this tripe of a review.

“I couldn’t simply write my opinion I had to be a destructive little shit aren’t i awesome?”


ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - GODWIN'S LAW:

"Jose": My dear: Even if you dont like a book i dont get why you have to destroy it, Nazi memories perhaps?

Miss Articulate, the OP: The book was dying anyway, it would have been thrown away if I’d given it to a charity shop and I clearly underestimated the offense people would take. Relating it to Nazi’s is incredibly disrespectful to what people went through during WW2, including my own family so please don’t throw that around. Thanks for the comment.

Jose: It’s merely stating that destroying books is one of the things Nazis did, why get so personal? I respected your apology for offence caused, but that is yet another petty, attention-seeking remark. Did anyone refer to the other horrors the Nazis did? No. Therefore your response is irrelevant.


And there's so much more where that came from.

ETA from sandglass: "The Facebook link itself is worth looking at, too. Rice is replying to comments as well."



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[info]paladin
2013-04-29 09:22 pm UTC (link)
You're thinking of Laurell K. Hamilton.

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[info]ekaterinv
2013-04-29 11:55 pm UTC (link)
I'm pretty sure Anne Rice wrote something about permanently erect penii back in the 70s when she was writing porn.

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[info]phosfate
2013-04-30 03:03 am UTC (link)
I hate myself for being able to confirm this, but it was a motif in the Beauty books. I'm still not sure if she was fantasizing, or genuinely thought that this was something men can do at will.

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[info]aiwendil
2013-04-30 04:58 am UTC (link)
Well, there is a medical condition called Priapism, where the erection does not subside. It's a medical emergency which without treatment can result in ischemia, thrombosis, impotence, or - in extreme cases - gangrene, resulting in amputation.

The condition is named for the minor Greek god Priapus, who most commonly is depicted with an absurdly large and permanent erection. Apparently some scholars think that garden gnomes are a descendant of Priapus, of sorts....

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[info]phosfate
2013-04-30 05:03 am UTC (link)
Thaaaaaaaat's not really what she was going for, no.

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[info]aiwendil
2013-04-30 05:19 am UTC (link)
The world is perhaps a better place for Anne Rice not writing garden gnome porn, I guess.

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[info]puipui
2013-04-30 06:38 am UTC (link)
Is it bad that I would be curious to read that?

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[info]queencallipygos
2013-04-30 06:54 pm UTC (link)
You're not the only one, so I hope not.

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[info]ekaterinv
2013-04-30 07:16 pm UTC (link)
I'd be amused to see how Anne Rice would attempt to make garden gnomes angsty. Allergies, maybe.

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[info]puipui
2013-04-30 08:41 pm UTC (link)
"Louis! How could you? YOU DIDN'T USE TRAVELOCITY!" *slashes gnome wrists*

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2013-05-02 02:10 am UTC (link)
I LOL'ed.

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[info]kita0610
2013-04-30 05:38 am UTC (link)
Didn't her vampires come with permanent erections? They couldn't/didn't use them, but they were always at least semi-erect, if I recall correctly. And actually now that I think about it, one of her vampire couples did have sex while sleeping in their coffin together. But it wasn't really sex, because her vampires didn't have sex! But it was penetration, and therefore uhm, sex. She confused the hell out of me as a teenager.

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[info]ekaterinv
2013-04-30 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Right around when the movie Interview With a Vampire came out, I had about a short period in which I thought vampires could be hot, focused on Anne Rice vampires. Then I learned her vampires couldn't have sex, and I thought, wtf is the point of that? And went back to my normal stance of thinking vampires were boring.

Is it like, they didn't orgasm so it's not sex? That sounds like the kind of weirdness she'd come up with.

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[info]uldihaa
2013-05-01 09:28 pm UTC (link)
They made unicorns!


Oh wait, wrong vampires.

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[info]tehrin
2013-04-30 08:14 am UTC (link)
Rashes come with guilty pleasures like cheesy vampire novels.

I think they were flaccid, but later retconned.

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