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Critical Cricket ([info]criticalcricket) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-08-06 20:53:00
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Current mood:Spiffy

The Little Cinder Girl Meets The Bookyoucrew
Here's a tale of literary wank. 'Tis small, but wanky and bite sized and tasty with mustard.

Once upon a time, Cinderjewel joined a community called thebookyoucrew. Bookyoucrew is a community that rates "your literary taste and knowledge (or lack thereof)." When you join, you must post a list of your top 20 books and then, they rate you.

So, Cinderjewel posts her list. It includes books written by Anne Rice, Laura Ingalls Wilder, J.K. Rowling and Alexander Dumas. The Bookyoucrew doesn't take kindly to the little cinder girl and give comments such as "this one is called "gag me with a spoon"
and "This list isn't worth voting on."

As per community rules, the poster is not actually allowed to comment until they've been accepted into the community. Unable to lie idly by, Cinderjewel fires back in her lj, not once, not twice, but thrice.

Will anyone live happily ever after here?

Edit: In her latest post, Cinderjewel writes "I'm ever so grateful no reported that whole epidone to FW. I would have been mortified, althought at the sime time, seriously amused"
Think we should break it to her? ;)

Edit 2: After the wank hits the fan, the moderator feels the need to address the unwashed masses crew and warn off all the literary peons here.

Edit 3: [info]ladybirdsleeps would like to pick your brains. She wants to know what Wankers' top 20 books are. Go here to read all about it and add your own choices.
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[info]anon_3point5
2004-08-08 12:38 am UTC (link)
Hello lovies. I must say I have the wonderfully dirty urge to check all their ages. Reading all that was to much like the time I wandered from my gave to that Starbucks place for a nice bit of tea to go with my troll sandwitch.

Tea?
Anon 3.5

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I'm so weak....
[info]iczer6
2004-08-08 01:57 am UTC (link)
I posted my list there:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/thebookyoucrew/109781.html

So far I've been told I make F. Scott Fitzgerald cry, [though Shakespeare, H.G. Welles and George Orwell don't have a problem with my list] and had Buffy quoted at me.

Could I get that made into an icon? 'I make F. Scott Fiztgerald cry'?

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Re: I'm so weak....
[info]quinctia
2004-08-08 05:01 am UTC (link)
My first thought was to make notes on your list so I could make Fitzgerald cry on purpose.

...HATE GREAT GATSBY GRR...

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Re: I'm so weak....
[info]chash
2004-08-08 05:17 am UTC (link)
So is F. Scott Fitzgerald the new baby Jesus?

And considering Gastby is also on my list, I imagine I make him cry too.

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Re: I'm so weak....
[info]biichan
2004-08-08 05:28 am UTC (link)
You rang?

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Re: I'm so weak.... - [info]iczer6, 2004-08-08 05:29 am UTC
Re: I'm so weak.... - (Anonymous), 2004-08-09 05:24 am UTC
Re: I'm so weak....
[info]necronomist
2004-08-08 10:06 pm UTC (link)
Fitzgerald is over-rated and I fucking hate Hemingway, though I agree with him when he says, "Poor Scott and his infautation with the rich."

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Re: I'm so weak.... - [info]phosfate, 2004-08-10 07:35 pm UTC
Re: I'm so weak.... - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-12 02:04 pm UTC

[info]littlest_lurker
2004-08-08 03:16 am UTC (link)
I think, this journal entry of tom_servo's says a lot more about him than his comments in thebookyoucrew do (and those don't say much).

"I thought Ghost World was neat! Oh you didn't like it? Well, I hated it too!"

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[info]llama_treats
2004-08-08 03:46 am UTC (link)
That guy's giving the real Tom Servo a bad name. Bastard!

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(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2004-08-08 05:38 am UTC

[info]biichan
2004-08-08 05:13 am UTC (link)
It warms the cockles of my cold little heart :)

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[info]squib
2004-08-08 07:46 am UTC (link)
*blinks* He doesn't know how to spell "recommendation?"

I'm tempted to apply and run the books off the list I just abstracted for work (I abstract psychological books and journals.) They can try that for obscure.

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(no subject) - [info]bishounenhuntrs, 2004-08-08 10:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mirabellawotr, 2004-08-08 04:23 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-08-09 03:06 am UTC (link)
And he has Robert Jordan listed among his interests - now *that*'s obviously high culture, unlike King... I wonder whether he put Jordan on his list.

taelle on lj

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[info]aloysius
2004-08-09 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Personally I enjoyed this post more; he's another of those "intelligent", "well-read" people who can't seem to grasp that creating a work of "art" is not something you can do because it's inherently "in" you; it is hard work, a process more than a result. The boy has no idea. About anything, I'd guess.

But who am I.

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(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-12 02:05 pm UTC

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[info]chash
2004-08-08 05:26 am UTC (link)
Is it wrong that I really want someone to apply listing the Draco Trilogy among their favorites? Just to see what happens, really. I predict that would be the point when the world just stopped. With no fuss at all, like in the end of that Arthur C. Clarke story. Except instead of discovering all of god's names, we'd just gone too far. It's the point where god says, "No, this is too much. Lights off. Think about what you've done."

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[info]biichan
2004-08-08 05:29 am UTC (link)
Oh no, I think we all do :)

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(no subject) - [info]chash, 2004-08-08 02:19 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-08-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Hee! I didn't like the DT myself, but still it would be incredibly amusing.

Then I'll throw in AtE, PtQ, and a few more. *rubs hands together and cackles evilly*

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nakannimi
2004-08-08 02:33 pm UTC (link)
New personal policy

auto-no for the following: Rowling, Gaarder and Rice

so yeah...NO

Auto-no for Rowling? Doesn't that mean excluding, like, everybody? I think if you just made a list of obscure yet pretentious sounding books, these people would be all over you.

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[info]iczer6
2004-08-08 06:19 pm UTC (link)
Well Rowling makes the the horrid mistake of being both easy to read and widely popular so naturally to these folks she must be 'TEH EVAL'.

I just wonder what they have against Dan Brown and Stephen King?

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-08-08 06:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]alpheratz, 2004-08-09 05:52 pm UTC

[info]biichan
2004-08-09 12:50 am UTC (link)
But... but....

Jostein Gaarder writes in NORWEIGAN! NORWEIGAN!

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(no subject) - [info]necronomist, 2004-08-09 01:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]aloysius, 2004-08-09 02:23 pm UTC

[info]kookaburra
2004-08-08 11:53 pm UTC (link)
I just realized what REALLY bothered me about the way they rated people- they didn't give them any credit for the good classics they DID have on the lists, only took off for any non-elite writings. Or something.

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[info]bakashinobi
2004-08-09 07:55 am UTC (link)
Yanno, it's a funny thing...somebody early on mentioned Elizabeth Wurtzel as an author whose appearance on an applicant's list would result in an automatic ban, but IMNSHO, the Bookyoucrew all act just like her. (As in madly discussing all sorts of esoteric subjects in an attempt to prove how smart and cutting-edge they are.)

People...you gotta love 'em! *walks away humming, "Isn't It Ironic"*

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Re: *whine whine whine*
[info]criticalcricket
2004-08-09 09:00 pm UTC (link)
Woah there cowgirl. It might be to your benefit to slow down when you type so the rest of us can actually read what the hell you're trying to say.

As for the community battening down the hatches like that. I'd say that my job there is done. I've already gotten banned because I OMG! Like, dared to talk to them!!1

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Re: *whine whine whine* - [info]vadalia, 2004-08-09 09:59 pm UTC
Re: *whine whine whine* - (Anonymous), 2004-08-11 03:34 am UTC
Re: *whine whine whine* - [info]criticalcricket, 2004-08-11 05:59 am UTC
Re: *whine whine whine*
[info]wankprophet
2004-08-09 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Darlin', you might wanna consider quitting while you're ahead. We're not here to enact your righteous vengeance, and, to be frank, had you posted it, we'd have smacked you for doing revenge wank. As it is, cooling those jets and not gloating is probably the safest path right now. Cause you didn't do anything except post a list that was almost guaranteed to get smacked, and cause a stir afterwards. It's almost trollish behaviour, you know. SO I'd recommend you take the high road now.

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(no subject) - jessicareeves, 2004-08-10 12:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-08-10 07:39 pm UTC
Re: *whine whine whine*
[info]phosfate
2004-08-10 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Bitch, please.

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-08-12 01:18 pm UTC (link)
TheBookYouCrew is a bunch of glorified first-graders in a treehouse. :P "Whine whine whine you can't like anything we don't or you're stooopid!!!!".

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