The Further Adventures of Mighty Wang and Busty Boy-Girl

Jan 23, 2008 21:29

I have been fed.  I have chocolate.  I have checked the f-list and noted the shameless linking.

I will now "read" the second half.

Post to be updated until I finish.

ETA 1:

Now that she has found the scalps, Busty BG has decided that she's being forced to bend to Mighty Wang's every whim and objects to him expecting her to wear the clothes she was ( Read more... )

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. meganbmoore January 24 2008, 07:34:51 UTC
"that big chunk of food-and-table-manners has already been confirmed as another rip from Parker (and now I'm craving hominy soup, damnit!). I'm a little curious about your note of a much earlier passage on food, though -- there's one note for a rip about food being served back at the start of the book"

Ah...uhm...shoot. I noted so much I've forgotten a lot of it. Did I quote it or just mention it?

"How's that poor girl supposed to get all hot and bothered without spicy, spicy talk about weasels?"

The same actually went through my head...

"OK, this bit? There is CLEARLY a huge missing scene that got lost in translation or something. I can guarantee that what's going through Mighty Wang's mind at that point is something to the effect of "hot damn, I can't believe she's actually BUYING this bullcrap. Everything they said about white chicks is true; if I marry her, I'll never have to fear living with a bossy wife and bossier mother-in-law ever again! No wonder dad's so jealous.""

It's...really exactly like I laid it out. Her books are very, very "the native american is right in all instances because he's the native american." It's basically "uhm...people are out to kill my mother and you promised to save her." "Can't, dad's sick." "Uhm...your sister's here and he has the best medical care he'll get...and people want to burn my mother alive..." "I'll take care of it later." "Ok."

"Megan isn't getting paid nearly enough to review this dreck."

If anyone ever doubts my love for them, I shall point to this tag.

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. smillaraaq January 24 2008, 08:02:58 UTC
Did I quote it or just mention it?

Mentioned in passing. Just going by the stuff in the SBTB files, the one other passage they note about food being served is back in the same section where she's also plagiarized the detailed description of the decorations on the pottery, and the the only food passage cited there is one where Mighty Wang is dishing out some stew. Oh, hey, and look, two pages before that there's a quote from a bit where someone is telling her the most important rule she has to remember is not to go snooping into someone's private things! Guess Shawndee AND the author both forgot that helpful well before the end of the book.

If anyone ever doubts my love for them, I shall point to this tag.

Well, I can throw in recipes for modernized versions of the hominy soup and boiled corn bread everybody's going NOM NOM NOM over back around in the endless food-plagiarism scene. But frankly, that's the sort of thing that if you didn't grow up on it, you'd probably be happier just sticking with the trade beads...

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. meganbmoore January 24 2008, 08:08:13 UTC
Hmmmm...I think maybe the other was the corn husks thing...I caught one part, but not another.

I believe something like "pigeons bookmark" was mentioned...

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. smillaraaq January 24 2008, 09:17:11 UTC
Any particular pigeon plumage coloring you prefer?

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. meganbmoore January 24 2008, 16:53:22 UTC
Naah, I'll leave that to you.

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. smillaraaq January 25 2008, 01:36:12 UTC
Right, then! Time to rummage through the bead stash and plot some more.

(Did you get my mail, btw?)

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. meganbmoore January 25 2008, 01:37:23 UTC
Yes. I shall try to get it out next time I ship ebay stuff.

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Re: I laughed, I cried, it was better than...ummm...let me get back to you on that one. smillaraaq January 25 2008, 02:05:32 UTC
No rush! I just wanted to make sure I hadn't fat-fingered your address or something. :)

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