I've seen some strange things on ff.net but this has to set some sort of record. The Author's Note that preceded the story was incomprehensible and it went downhill from there. The capitalisation of proper nouns seemed so random that it appeared to have been determined by dice throws, the apostrophes were so aberrant that they could have inspired a sequel to "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", the Mary Sues made Sam Riley look like a logical and carefully-considered addition to the Buffy pantheon - and the reviews! Or "reveiws", as they have it more than once.
I had a look at the story by the other one of the two Mary Sues, read the reviews there, and saw this comment by someone not one of the little incestuous clique: "I will pay you one hundred million dollars to never write anything again. Ever." They were deeply offended. It's the only genuine review among 46 pieces of self-congratulatory drivel.
Why couldn't they just have e-mailed these "stories" to each other and spared the world much suffering?
In 20 minutes "The Black Shield of Falworth" is on ITV1, offering me the chance to hear Tony Curtis uttering such immortal lines as "Yonder lies da castle of my foider". I shall watch it with renewed appreciation now that I've seen how much worse writing can be.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:03 am (UTC)I had a look at the story by the other one of the two Mary Sues, read the reviews there, and saw this comment by someone not one of the little incestuous clique: "I will pay you one hundred million dollars to never write anything again. Ever." They were deeply offended. It's the only genuine review among 46 pieces of self-congratulatory drivel.
Why couldn't they just have e-mailed these "stories" to each other and spared the world much suffering?
In 20 minutes "The Black Shield of Falworth" is on ITV1, offering me the chance to hear Tony Curtis uttering such immortal lines as "Yonder lies da castle of my foider". I shall watch it with renewed appreciation now that I've seen how much worse writing can be.