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Oi. Hopefully not… Time permitting, NYT, Washington Post and WSJ are the 3 US thingies I try to check out. Combine this with the few Euro and UK thingies, along with board…it’s no wonder I’m behind on my work and have continual migraines (I jest). I’m not surprised *at all* that anyone...

“Undoubtedly”? Don’t be so sure. Are you actually surprised HP got a good review? I’d have to think the person that chose to write one would certainly be hard-up for work in the aftermath. Reviews can be kinda political. I’ve recently read an interview with a writer and she was asked...

for your reading pleasure: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/31/features-bernhard.php

I think it’s Paul Jenkins who will do it. Yeah, I’d say that. I was hoping for a bit more. And that’s _not_ with all the pressure in the hype of Gaiman coming to Marvel, which was huge, huge news for several years. Sorry, I should have been more clear. The Ultimate line simply started...

Heh. Been there on many different occasions, but not with writing (necessarily). http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1504973,00.html I get lost on this a bit, so if an intelligent person writes a book they shouldn’t write it as they would normally? It does seem like everything is...

Dear Catcher, you cited Gravity earlier. Now before Newton was a’ apple watching, what “facts” was he working with? While we still seems to get the word “opinion” confused, while I assure you it *is* applicable here, -come sit in on our next lab meeting- would you prefer the term “theory”...

Ohhhhhhh, don’t get me linking that to “intelligence” now! [this is a joke for the humour impaired] Yes, many people start out this way (and most stay this way, of course). You seem to be –gawd I hate clichés but- ‘really on the ball’; I’m betting that you’ll see things for what they are. Until...

Nooooooooooo, not at all. But this has shaped the market for years to come. The general misconception is that these books profiting is “good” because then the publisher has more money and can take chances on different things, new writers, etc. That’s rubbish. It’s a business and they just...

It was originally a mini-series of 8 (or so) issues. If just looking to read it, maybe the individual issues can be found for cheaper than the “novel” version. I’m not a fan of Gaiman, but no matter who the writer would have been, it just seemed a silly idea. In recent years Marvel has...

No, I was moreso hoping… I agree. I just don’t really understand the ‘doing it because everyone else is’ situation(s). And there’s the ol’ phrase that goes something like, ’if a million people say a stupid thing, it’s still a stupid thing’. Mediocrity has often risen to the top, this is...

Interesting comments! And people say *I* dissect too much! Anyway, keep in mind the “style” is letter format. So it’s not being narrated to us, it’s simply a letter from a woman to her husband. A ‘regular woman’, not a writer’s voice. At first I was critical, wondering if the letter-thing...

As you stated, I’m a “big boy” and I know subjectable isn’t a proper word. I’m fine with that. It fits. But no, if I was meaning to allude to Hardy, I would have done so. I’m capitalizing it for emphasis. If anything it’s a Charles Mackay ref. So please, we all know you’re a former editor...

First of all, they *very* well may. But I didn’t say “disregard”. That’s very different than divergence. Divergence is taking what is there and stretching it, so to speak. It would be *very* odd for me to me preaching that there are indeed basic “right” and “wrongs” in writing/storytelling...

Occasionally an email or PM comes my way due to my recommending this novel, so I thought I’d start a thread for some conversation around it to be held. For those curious, here’s what I originally wrote: http://forums.thebookforum.com/showpost.php?p=104982&postcount=747

Hm, well, maybe ‘hanging on the streets’ he’s fine honing his conversational skills. Gawd knows language is dying… I knew someone would jump on that one. And before the family even offers, yes, I’d be delighted to come over for dinner next Wednesday. Yes, you are very correct. And that’s...

You want me to pick apart something already published? I could, but it’s a bit ‘too late now’, dontcha think (if you were to agree with comments – if I even had any, thankfully not every book I read fills up pads of papers with curses and comments). But really, if you feel it will help you...

Seeing as there was mucho action, this time I read ahead and will not respond to every lil’ thing. I think… This is *really* way off the subject. But no, I honestly do not remember what someone working at Houghton Mifflin 14 years ago was making exactly. I have a pretty good memory, but that...

My points were -and are- fine in the context they were meant to be used in. They were not meant as “‘reviews’” or, for that matter, a listing of fish breeds. Sorry, when I see “jay” I’m kind of thinking it’s a lil’ bit about me. Well, some of us have tossed around the looseness of the...

!!?? Please, my dear Novella, in the past you’ve tried to put me in check and haven’t even captured a pawn. Bail me out? I think my “semi-reviews” (which I’ve always called them) are a bit different then the “examples of posts” I gave above. Why do so many people love to bloody misquote...

You may be right but….I’m still thinking Russian was his native. He grew up in St. Petersburg and then moved to England later. Maybe his pretending tricked me. I never called it a ‘review’. The whole point –and this really isn’t difficult, and I certainly didn’t think it would really be...