Subject: Wow.
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Posted on: 2011-09-15 14:02:00 UTC

That... was really terrible. Sporking was definitely warranted.

The good news is, it was funny, and I'd definitely read more of these if you write them. The bad news is that I think you're going overboard on the author-bashing. You can say the writing is idiotic all you want, and by all means call out the narrative voice, but if we insult the author, a human being, it makes us look like bullying jackasses, and we're not. {= )

~Neshomeh, who is still tempted occasionally, but finds that substituting "narrator" or "narrative" for "author" works like a charm and is, in fact, more to the point—writing talent does not necessarily correlate with overall intelligence.

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