mojojojoe
Tenacious Typer
The cold sweat in your breakfast
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Post by mojojojoe on Dec 15, 2008 1:17:00 GMT
is a book you should do your very very best to avoid. It's by Cory Doctorow and it's filled with linear, juvenile characters and horrible grammar.
Twenty-four pages in and I took it back to the book store. The woman wouldn't let me return it until I told her why it was shit. She was quite shocked and looked like she wished she hadn't asked when I gave her the string of accurate profanities.
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Post by MoeMeister on Dec 15, 2008 2:35:18 GMT
I would loved to have seen the woman's face to your review!
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Post by Someguy on Dec 15, 2008 11:37:37 GMT
Hmmm, now there's a thing. Anyone got any horror stories regarding...stories that went wrong?
My own recent soulache came at the hands of John Buchan's 'Mr. Standfast' which I had to do a presentation on. Basically it glorifies the main character Hannay because he is an idiot whilst villifying anyone remotely intelligent. Oh, and a pacifist is 'cured' at the end and dies fighting in the trenches. And the antagonist Von Schwabing is killed trying to run back to his own side. And then a crippled airman turns up to kamikaze the German ace Lensch who has the layout plans of the British trenches, dying in the process. And Hannay ends up with a nurse/spy/bombshell half his age. And when the crippled pilot goes to the other side there are trumpets. Many, many trumpets.
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