Hell hath no fury like a writer wronged...

[Stella_Omega]

if you have some extra time and need a laugh, I heartily recommend this review of a self-published book. It's not the review itself that is so entertaining-- it's the responses of the author, over three hundred comments, often in reply to himself, beginning in May and continuing until the webzine publisher closed the comments early this month.

Classy!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Link is broken, looks like the star fairy got to it, but I think this is the one:

http://tidbits.com/article/14696

I've seen some painful author-responds-to-reviews episodes, but this one beats them all.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Link is broken, looks like the star fairy got to it, but I think this is the one:

http://tidbits.com/article/14696

I've seen some painful author-responds-to-reviews episodes, but this one beats them all.

Yeah, I wanted to tiny-url the link. I've known people who obsessively google for things that pertain to them and their painful fee fees.

 

[PennLady]

Oh my. I know I myself have responded to the occasional question or erroneous statement in a comment, but not often and always privately, I think.

Good grief. I bet that guy could have written at least a workmanlike novella in the time it took him to write all those comments.

 

[JKendallDane]

That is hilarious!

Kind of reminds me of a Lit author that always has to do a ten or fifteen paragraph review of his own contest entries here to explain why we "didn't get it" and what everything actually meant.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

No one is under Stephan Harper. He's just standing on the back of another Stephan Harper.

Stephan Harper, all the way down.

 

[Stella_Omega]

No one is under Stephan Harper. He's just standing on the back of another Stephan Harper.

Stephan Harper, all the way down.

You win the internets.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not that it would be anything I would be interested in (okay, well, maybe, my wife collects Boyds Bears has over 100 of them so the Teddy Bear violence would be something to appall her with) but if I saw an author that defensive about his work and so insecure he cannot take a lick of critique I would make sure I spent my money somewhere else.

 

[lovecraft68]

That is hilarious!

Kind of reminds me of a Lit author that always has to do a ten or fifteen paragraph review of his own contest entries here to explain why we "didn't get it" and what everything actually meant.

We have ourselves to blame, if we weren't so unsophisticated they would not have to explain it to us.

 

[JKendallDane]

We have ourselves to blame, if we weren't so unsophisticated they would not have to explain it to us.

What can I say, LC?

I mean I even read Tom Clancy and James Patterson and John Grisham, so you know my level of breeding and cultural acumen obviously sucks!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

You win the internets.

The quote originates from several famous sources, many of them really historical or cool ones. I personally got introduced to it from the Dark Tower series. Way of the turtle, beam of the bear.

See the TURTLE of enormous girth!
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow, but always kind.
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made:
He sees the truth, but mayn't aid.
He loves the land he loves the sea.
He even loves a child like me.


So I almost feel like I don't deserve the internets.


By the way Stella I only ever seem to comment or PM you when I'm high. Are you canniboid-psychic?

Nice to see ya.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The quote originates from several famous sources, many of them really historical or cool ones. I personally got introduced to it from the Dark Tower series. Way of the turtle, beam of the bear.

See the TURTLE of enormous girth!
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow, but always kind.
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made:
He sees the truth, but mayn't aid.
He loves the land he loves the sea.
He even loves a child like me.


So I almost feel like I don't deserve the internets.

yeah, but so apt a usage!

By the way Stella I only ever seem to comment or PM you when I'm high. Are you canniboid-psychic?

Nice to see ya.

Decades of being the only non-stoner in many a household... yeah, probably so!

Magnets how do they even work?

 

[Cruel2BKind]

yeah, but so apt a usage!

Decades of being the only non-stoner in many a household... yeah, probably so!

Magnets how do they even work?

I won the pulitzer of the internet.

I think that just won the Grammy


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It was ridiculous how many times I had to edit and spell check this last post.

 

[nomoretears00]

*laugh* You're in rare form tonight, Cruel.

 

[Hypoxia]

I was once officially voted a "credit to the internet".

But that was a couple decades ago.

I've deteriorated since then.

 

[sheablue]

I just spent way too long reading those comments, and I still hadn't gotten through half of it. I have no words!

I am in a bit of a liquid vicodin induced haze, but correct me if I'm wrong:

the review was pretty even handed for what it was actually reviewing

what the author is so vehemently and passionately defending is a crime novel set in Venice in which all of the characters are teddy bears

the author many times uses a different review to refute the review he is upset about. this other review is one he wrote himself as a fictional bear character from a website he maintains about teddy bears? he insists that this bear character is real because he has been in existence on this website of his since 1998.

he repeatedly likens his work to F Scott Fitzgerald and Keats.

I mean, I'm kind of high, but this all seems to be true.

I really have no words, except thank you Stella, for posting this, I'm so bored, laying around in bed all day recovering and that was ... entertaining, to say the very least.

In terms of internet comments on anything ever, this wins the grand prize, hands down.

Wow.

 

[lovecraft68]

Cruel's stoned, Shea is high on pain meds and before I crawled up the stairs at one am I had consumed enough JD to kill a frat boy.

And we all write porn.

A testament to bad living right here in the AH.

 

[sheablue]

Cruel's stoned, Shea is high on pain meds and before I crawled up the stairs at one am I had consumed enough JD to kill a frat boy.

And we all write porn.

A testament to bad living right here in the AH.

If only I could write porn while in the Vicodin haze, now that might be something. But all I can do is lay here and wonder why the ceiling fan is so fucking loud???

(Vicodin does this to me, everything is too loud and echoey. )

And I think to myself, if I have to eat another spoonful of jello, I don't know what I'm going to do.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Way to go Stella Fella! Your link is loaded with Ebola.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My anti-ebola software wont let me access Stella's link. The nuke option disconnects me from the internet if the shit is bad enough. Be careful.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

If only I could write porn while in the Vicodin haze, now that might be something. But all I can do is lay here and wonder why the ceiling fan is so fucking loud???

(Vicodin does this to me, everything is too loud and echoey. )

And I think to myself, if I have to eat another spoonful of jello, I don't know what I'm going to do.

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I get good 'starts' when I'm high. I can't write very much, but what I do write helps me to go in a new direction when I'm sober.

I remember those echoy shadowy vicodin highs from when I got my wisdom teeth removed. My dad took a short video. I woke up on the table. Sat up, woozy as fuck. We were ready to go to the car, and then I insisted that I was too tired in a cranky 4-year-old voice and went to sleep for another half hour before they could get me out. XD

Cruel's stoned, Shea is high on pain meds and before I crawled up the stairs at one am I had consumed enough JD to kill a frat boy.

And we all write porn.

A testament to bad living right here in the AH.

Last night was fun. Sorry if I was a bitch in the other thread. I was feeling spiteful.

 

[lovecraft68]

Last night was fun. Sorry if I was a bitch in the other thread. I was feeling spiteful.

No worries its the "internets" I don't take anything seriously.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I get good 'starts' when I'm high. I can't write very much, but what I do write helps me to go in a new direction when I'm sober.

I remember those echoy shadowy vicodin highs from when I got my wisdom teeth removed. My dad took a short video. I woke up on the table. Sat up, woozy as fuck. We were ready to go to the car, and then I insisted that I was too tired in a cranky 4-year-old voice and went to sleep for another half hour before they could get me out. XD




Last night was fun. Sorry if I was a bitch in the other thread. I was feeling spiteful.

Youre pretty much an annoying asshole all the time.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Youre pretty much an annoying asshole all the time.

Oh no! A racist fuckwit thinks I'm not fun to be around???

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Oh no! A racist fuckwit thinks I'm not fun to be around???

I'll send an application, maybe joining us will make you more appealing.