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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]varethane
2013-04-30 08:35 pm UTC (link)
Honestly if I'd started reading the Dresden Files from book 1, I doubt I'd have bothered with the others-- or I might have read up to book 2 or 3 but then gotten tired of how repetitive they were (relative to each other) and dropped the series.

...But, I started with Dead Beat (which I think is book... 5? Or so? too lazy to google), and it grabbed me enough to make me want to read ALL of the others. Giving me the patience to get through the first three, which I still found tedious, just so I could find out how things had gotten to the point they were at in the first one I'd read.

(I still think Dead Beat is the high point of that series. I mean, zombie t-rex</a>. ZOMBIE T-REX.)

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[info]cinnamonical
2013-04-30 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Yep, I started with Dead Beat too, which is book 7. NO REGRETS WHATSOEVER. To date it's the only book of the series I've re-read, although I own up to Small Favor.

(This recent interview with Butcher actually has him saying that Dead Beat was tied with another story as being his favorite book he's written so far.)

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[info]kita0610
2013-05-01 01:28 am UTC (link)
Yeah, Dead Beat is where Butcher found his voice and rhythm for sure.

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[info]sandglass
2013-05-01 05:05 am UTC (link)
Zombie t-rex? Okay, gonna go find a copy of that book and give Dresden Files another chance.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2013-05-02 03:44 am UTC (link)
Not just any T.rex either, but Sue!

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[info]sandglass
2013-05-02 03:46 am UTC (link)
Okay. Everything on my reading list is being pushed down for this book.

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[info]uldihaa
2013-05-02 10:39 am UTC (link)
There's also the awesome Dr. Waldo Butters, the most heroic lover of polka ever.

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[info]rosehiptea
2013-05-01 07:40 pm UTC (link)
I read the first one and never made it through the second. (Or was it the first two and I never made it through the third?) But maybe I need to try Dead Beat too.

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[info]kita0610
2013-05-02 04:43 am UTC (link)
Start on Book 5. By the time you hit Dead Beat (7), if you're not hooked, I will uhm... ok, mostly I'll just be surprised, but you could imagine me eating a hat or something.

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[info]jaina
2013-05-02 05:07 pm UTC (link)
I started with Small Favor, not knowing it was #10 in the series, and when I went and read the first book I was like "WHERE IS EVERYBODY? And why is Murphy being so mean?"

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[info]perletwo
2013-05-04 03:00 am UTC (link)
Excuse me. Any old book can have a zombie T-rex. This one has a zombie T-rex powered by oompah drumming. It wins. Everything.

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