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Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 13 Apr 2011 14:33
by Robspierre
SandRider wrote:thankee ... i can haz linx to goodread review ? can post comments w/o account ?
hates register, hates ... i give email for spam, u let me comment, yes ?
Pretties review....
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/159849659
Review is precious yes???????
Rob
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 13 Apr 2011 18:49
by SandChigger
Lolcats meet Suzy Wong... THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 13 Apr 2011 20:30
by Robspierre
Amp, just letting you know I've posted some of your stuff from this thread in the Craft of Writing 490 Thread as a guest lecturer. Feel free to post any of your thoughts on writing in that thread.
Rob
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 15:26
by Ampoliros
Sweet! Careful though, I get stage fright...well except when I'm ranting...
Kinda obvious who cares about signing a book and who's just there to get er' done.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 15:56
by Kojiro
What the fuck is that scribble on the bottom? That's a "signature," Kevin?
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 16:51
by Ampoliros
well hey, Brian only does the West Coast. KJA has to sign the whole country! His wrist gets tired!
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 17:42
by Tleszer
What a douchenet. He might as well just "sign" a sticker and just make copies of the sticker to put in the books. Well, we all know that it's about quantity, not quality, with tehKJAcket.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 18:26
by Kojiro
On the flip side, I do like the care Brian took to pen out his name. It implies that there's some amount of decency hiding somewhere inside of him.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 18:52
by Robspierre
Some of the signatures from my tiny collection, all them legible.
Jack Williamson
Bill Patterson the Heinlein biographer.
Bill dedicated and signed self sticking labels for fans who could not get to him to get their copy signed.
William Gibson. I also have my copy of Idoru signed by him.
Rob
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 19:00
by Omphalos
Tleszer wrote:What a douchenet. He might as well just "sign" a sticker and just make copies of the sticker to put in the books. Well, we all know that it's about quantity, not quality, with tehKJAcket.
What KJA needs is a nice self-inking stamp with adjustable date.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 19:05
by Freakzilla
Omphalos wrote:Tleszer wrote:What a douchenet. He might as well just "sign" a sticker and just make copies of the sticker to put in the books. Well, we all know that it's about quantity, not quality, with tehKJAcket.
What KJA needs is a nice self-inking stamp with adjustable date.
I've got one at my office.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 19:13
by Robspierre
I did a search at Biblio.com for signed books by KJA, you can get them for as little as $10.99!
Rob
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 19:28
by SandChigger
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 16 Apr 2011 20:31
by D Pope
The secret behind dictahiking revealed!
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 17 Apr 2011 01:57
by Ampoliros
That's exactly what it looks like in my signed copy of Winds of Dune, which I paid 4.98 for.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 17 Apr 2011 19:12
by A Thing of Eternity
I guess signatures are like that sometimes, not legible is pretty common - but there's a difference between signing a cheque and signing an autograph, the general convention is to alter your signature in a way so as to make it at least somewhat understandable...
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:45
by Ampoliros
You know... It's...
Well...
So I'm reading the "deleted scene" from Hellhole.
I just...
Yeah.
What the Fuck?
I...yeah.
stay tuned...
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 06:57
by SandChigger
Well, two sources of that crap (wow... stinky much, what?) are quite obvious:
- The flesh-eating beetles are from
Hamunaptra. No question. Also can be read as a return of the piranha mites.
- And this...
Outside, people ran screaming, unable to shake their tormentors. One man
fell, his entire body a writhing, black silhouette. Other victims, completely
enveloped by the flying bugs, were caught up in a cyclonelike swirl. Through
the dusty windscreen of the Trakmaster, Lujah watched in horror as a blanket of
the predatory insects lifted the stocky female driver of the lead vehicle. They
carried her off the ground and stripped the flesh off her bones in midair.
... tells us that Kevin has seen
Pitch Black.
Wow... such creative originality.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 11:53
by Ampoliros
I loved the bus full of tourists and the littered campsite myself; that or camping outside in flimsy tents after a static storm where they had to stay in the armored trakmaster.
Yeah"poignant" story my ass...
Did you mean Tosser? wrote:
We felt the exploration and adventure was a poignant story that demonstrated the challenges of life on the planet
Hellhole. Their tragic fate highlighted very real dangers of this place and served as an
object lesson to other colonists who chosd not to abide by the General’s wise rules...Besides, not knowing what really
happened to the Children of Amadin enhances the mystery.
Here's what I noticed, Kevin.
-No description of their religion, at all. They wear uniforms and prey and follow the Leader. A real creative mind would come up with at least something, one thing, ANYTHING, to describe their actual beliefs, even if its such a minor point about characters who die and their entire purpose is to die. Oh, okay there is one line of scripture "Listen 100 times before you speak." Yeah how about this Kevin, Read Dune More Than Once Before You Attempt to Write it. Heck, try this on: TURN OFF THE DVD PLAYER WHEN YOU 'EDIT'.
-Hellhole didn't kill them. Beetles didn't kill them. YOU killed them, by writing characters so amazingly idiotic that they willing drive into hell.
Some 'highlights':
"
Close by, the other vehicles skidded, collision-‐‑avoidance sensors keeping them from crashing into each other"
-So....not the drivers then.
"
The seismic upheaval knocked some of the lava boulders that had been piled up in incomprehensible defensive formations."
-what? no, seriously, WHAT?
"
A quake . . . a Hellquake."
or
? Can't decide. Both.
"
With well-‐‑practiced efficiency, the Children of Amadin erected prefab structures, sleep shelters, and communal awnings."
-next to the lava flows, right after the (man I can't even type it) quake. One of the vehicles was disabled during the...quake so they figure they should stop here before it gets worse.
"
What had that inhuman race been like? Had they seen their end coming? What sort of
messages, or warnings, might they have left behind?
Most importantly, had they believed in Amadin?"
Yeah I'm gonna guess its no. And if it was yes, Amadin did a shit job of taking care of them, so you might want to rethink your faith.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 13:01
by Sev
So, just about the only part of the whole book where Hellhole is actually shown to be a dangerous place on which to live, and the two jackasses cut it out - it figures...
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 13:46
by Ampoliros
No, they still camp next to lava in tents, right after one of their vehicles was damaged by a smell-quake. So the harsh scenery of Hellhole is even more of a greenscreen in this scene: the thing that kills them are the beetles.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 15:42
by Freakzilla
It's about time The Beatles killed someone.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 20:46
by SandChigger
Didn't three of them go in on a hitman with that Japanese bint and knock off the other?
Oh, wait, wrong thread...
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 22:31
by Kojiro
SandChigger wrote:Well, two sources of that crap (wow... stinky much, what?) are quite obvious:
- The flesh-eating beetles are from
Hamunaptra. No question. Also can be read as a return of the piranha mites.
- And this...
Outside, people ran screaming, unable to shake their tormentors. One man
fell, his entire body a writhing, black silhouette. Other victims, completely
enveloped by the flying bugs, were caught up in a cyclonelike swirl. Through
the dusty windscreen of the Trakmaster, Lujah watched in horror as a blanket of
the predatory insects lifted the stocky female driver of the lead vehicle. They
carried her off the ground and stripped the flesh off her bones in midair.
... tells us that Kevin has seen
Pitch Black.
.....
No, no, no... I won't let Kevin ruin that movie for me. Nor will I allow him to ruin Claudia Black for me.
Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 23:54
by Ampoliros
Claudia Black? What does she have to do with KJA?
Do You mean Superstars Graduate Claudia Christian?
(I have a beautiful lesbian friend that looks like her (Pre-botox too). The gods enjoy taunting me.)