Comments | angevin2: Barnabe Barnes, thou shouldst be living at this hour

angevin2

Barnabe Barnes, thou shouldst be living at this hour

Mar 11, 2009 15:45

Because you are the only person who would appreciate this, um, romance novel, a review of which turned up in the comments on the old flist, and which I feel compelled to share, in the interests of refuting entropy.

Frankly, I don’t know of any visual more attractive or seductive than a guy dressed like a knight in a tacky dinner theatre waving his ( Read more... )

wtf, trauma, privies, other people's reviews, you can't unsee it

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strangederby2 March 11 2009, 21:21:08 UTC

Truly dreadful. Its seeing books like this get published that first made me realize it was worth me having a go. No matter how poor my erotic writing turns out to be....

kindkit March 11 2009, 21:21:37 UTC

I nearly had a tea-meets-keyboard incident reading that review. Oh, those excerpts!

speak_me_fair March 11 2009, 21:59:48 UTC

Dear God. Blech.

a_t_rain March 11 2009, 22:57:23 UTC

OMG, you are SO RIGHT, except that ol' Barnabe presumably knew what "codpiece" actually means, and it is quite clear that this author does not.

angevin2 March 11 2009, 23:10:55 UTC

Indeed yes. Although I'm almost willing to let that slide -- there are early modern examples of "codpiece" used metonymically for its contents (like Lear's Fool's rhyme that begins "The codpiece that will house / Before the head has any"). But it sounds really stupid in this context and therefore I won't.

a_t_rain March 12 2009, 01:38:56 UTC

I'm also slightly alarmed by the fact that the author's last name is the same as my middle name, and there is therefore a very vague possibility that we may be related to each other. I shall hope it's a pen name.

ext_104773 March 11 2009, 23:57:00 UTC

why do you torture me? That was terrible, and now my sides hurt from laughing.

Happy juice? WTF? And Yo Mama? It's enough to put you off words altogether.