Further to my epic rant on The Real Middle Earth, this review pretty much sums up my thoughts so far (now up to p.56!) I'm having too much fun with my colour-coded stickies to stop now though. Orange for painfully naive mysticism/an overly simplistic view of history, pink for appalling writing (Bates has a tendency to abandon the subject of a ( Read more... )

I've been attempting to read Brian Bates' The Real Middle Earth since maybe March, and the library have decided I can't renew it any more times, so it's time for me to buckle down and actually finish the damn thing.

Only trouble being that I haven't been this annoyed by a book in a long time. I'm on page 16 and there have been at least 3 points ( Read more... )

So fanficrants has apparently gone adults-only overnight, which sucks because I know a lot of the posts are nitpicky and ridiculous, but some really are helpful.

What I understand to have happened is that someone reported the comm to LJ for adult content and LJ locked it down themselves, without contacting the mods or offering a warning or anything. Frankly, ( Read more... )

I am Not Happy. And, as you may have guessed, it stems from the benighted Engineering Project once again. So basically before the hols I volunteered to do the powerpoint bit of our presentation because I have all the pictures on my laptop. I was under the impression that Anna was writing the script and emailing it to me so that I could base the PP ( Read more... )

I knew I shouldn't have cleared out all my old schoolwork folders on my laptop. It means I'll have to redo my Romanticism page that I did last year for Wordsworth, unless I can track down the hard copy, which is doubtless buried somewhere in the loft. But Coleridge is cool. I like Coleridge. I'm still looking for a way to bring up the fact that the ( Read more... )

Some things leave one with an urge to type out long lines of obscenities with capslock firmly on. Such a thing is this article. Basically it says that women are ruining sci-fi for the men it's meant for. Excuse me while I go hit something.

( Pay no attention to the rant behind the curtain... )