|
|
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
|
10:28a - "YA!" "Middle grade!" "YA!" "Middle grade!"
Wank of the SF book reviewing variety- which pretty much automatically means, "Pretentious genre debate and flashing-credentials variety."
Paul Kincaid, a British SF reviewer, writes a review of the non-SF novel The Wild Girls for the SFSite. The review is pretty tepid, and was essentially only done because the author, Pat Murphy, has also written SF novels.
Literaticat, an American on LJ, disagrees.
( It's a MIDDLE GRADE novel, people )
The SF Blog Torque Control reports on both the review and the response, and the blog editor gives his own opinion, which falls solidly on Kincaid's side. This inspires a comment thread in which people from both sides show up to argue about what "middle grade" (a US book categorization that does not exist in the UK) should mean, and whether a UK reviewer is obligated to be familiar with the US book market's labels before he reviews a book.
Kincaid then responds with a quiet but decisive takedown of Literaticat's opinion:
( This is patent balderdash )
Will there be further developments in the exciting saga of what we should call this marketing category? Stay tuned!
current mood: Cliquish (84 comments |comment on this)
|
2:38p - cat abuse
Small and a little over a month old, but still entertaining.
[EDIT: This video has caused wank before when it first came out in January '07. ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) mindset provides links: 1 2 3]
Video of a "cat spa" automatic bath invention is posted at DampCats.com, sparking cries of "animal cruelty" and resulting naysayers.
Some quotes:
Emma: That IS animal cruelty - whoever designed this contraption has absolutely no understanding of a cats natural behaviour and/or needs. I work with them day in and day out and I’ve seen cats under stress - this is possibly one of the most abusive things I’ve ever seen done to an animal - goondess you can see how distressed it is! This “invention” is an utterly dispicable idea. I cannot stress how disgusted I am with this.
Iy: bande d’abrutis, c’est débile, aussi débile que d’aller crever en Irak
[electricwitch translates: "bunch of idiots, it´s moronic, as moronic as going to die in Iraque."]
big gaz: emma. SHUT THE FUK UP U DICK. ITS FUNNY THATS ALL. THE CAT MUST OF HAD A BAD SMELL AND NEEDED WASHED GROW UP U SAD COW
(82 comments |comment on this)
|
|
|
|