--During the last elections we had a number of incidents of our government officials' flunkeys concern-trolling liberal blogs under assumed identities to try to sway readers to their side, or at least away from voting for their masters' opponents, including one in my state (the one where the guy later turned out to be the stalker ex from hell)- ( Read more... )

I always thought of Ludlum as a rather flat (and sadly non-reality-based when it comes to dumb things like describing London and Paris so's the reader can tell just from the prose which city you're in, or the difference between Greek Orthodox and Hong Kong Action Movie monks) writer of contemporary Gary-Stu stories.

But apparently there's more to ( Read more... )

I didn't notice this at first, but in the details of the publication info on Amazon is the niggling little fact that Witlness of Gor is a staggering 717 pages (as well as hardcover.)

By way of comparison, Great Expectations is only 448 pages in the Penguin edition and Hugo's Bellringer only 510. This is literally half as large as War & Peace, ( Read more... )

for something like this happening, although most of them tend to be more discreet* when it comes to smuggling rodents...

*If they were intended to be fed to a snake, then the owner won't claim them, I'm betting, but will quietly fade away having never revealed the primary pet in their carry-on or clothes. If they were prize show mice, that would ( Read more... )