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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
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| 11:05a | Left Behind fails as a novel for many, many reasons, but all of its other faults -- the odious lack of empathy it holds up as a moral example, its blasphemous celebration of self-centeredness masquerading as Christianity, its perverse misogyny, its plodding pace, its wooden dialogue, it fetishistic obsession with telephones, its nonexistent characterization, its use and misuse of cliches, its irrelevant tangents, deplorable politics, confused theology, unintentional hilarities, hideous sentences, contempt for craft, factual mistakes, continuity errors ... its squandering of every interesting premise and its overwhelming, relentless and mind-numbing dullness -- all of these seem to be failures of the sort that one might encounter in any other Very, Very Bad book hastily foisted off onto the public without a second glance. "fetishistic obsession with telephones" bwaah. Slactivist has finished his dissection and refutation of the first "Left Behind" book. Seriously though, I never want to write anything that inspires someone to devote an entire blog to five years of debunking and visciously ripping it apart (and that's just the first book in the series). With an average response of 200 comments per post, that include filks, parodies, fanfiction, and now, an RPG. NOt that I wouldn't appreciate filks and fan fic but if people were doing it because they just hated my stories *that much*...well, I'd either be really hurt or I'd start taking a perverse pride in it. Unless I was LaJenkins, who really don't seem to care, because they don't have to care, the books have done the job they were supposed to do, which is scare the living daylights out of conservative evangelicals. Current Mood:  amused |
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| 11:05p | As much as I like Do Wop (and I actually do) PBS keeps rerunning their Do Wop special. Over and over and over, interspersed with Andre Rieu or however you spell it. Over and over and over. ( How I see Edmund: sex and religion and control and stuff ) Current Music: Over the Mountain, Across the Sea |
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