Books, Irate Authors & Car Door Vs. Finger (hint: Car Door Wins)

[eilonwy]

I neeed this book. Why are you so expeeeeensive???? Neeeeed this. As in, for the dissertation. Need need need. The bibliography alone is requisite. I might, I suppose, be getting it for Christmas as it's on my wish list, but I doubt it. And ASU's library doesn't have it. I currently have it on ILL, but need to return it tomorrow because of

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[tsuki_no_bara]

reading about your finger makes me cringe and, uh, feel kind of faint because oh my god, OW. with the blood and the blood and did i mention the blood? (i slammed my finger in a car door once too, and while there wasn't any blood and i didn't lose my fingernail, it hurt like fuck.) i'm glad it's doing ok, tho.

when i first read about that candace sams trainwreck i thought of you and your own encounter with the crazy. and someone on i think making light pointed out that there is no us kung fu team, and there's no way candace sams could be the senior woman on it. make of that what you will. :D

[eilonwy]

Oh dear. I'm sorry. It never occurred to me that reading about someone else's injury might squick someone out. Sorry!!

As for the Candace Sams trainwreck, coupled with 'mine' (I can't remember the author's name, and I'm too lazy to check Amazon), I begin to wonder if this sort of response has to do with the vanity press/print on demand/ebook market that's been created. More people are being published with, apparently, much lower standards. And these authors aren't dealing with criticism very well. (But this doesn't explain LKH-- except that she went insane somewhere after book 10 or so.)

[tsuki_no_bara]

even if you'd put all your injury details behind a cut and said "there's blood and stuff back here, you might be grossed out", i'd have clicked anyway. and since i watch cm, i'm getting to be an expert at recovering from squick. :D no worries.

i tend to think lkh's fame just went to her head, but maybe she was always a little speshul nuts. but i don't think you're wrong about the proliferation of vanity presses/print-on-demand and the rise of thin-skinned crazycakes authors. and it doesn't hurt that it's so easy to post reviews (good or bad) and thus so easy for authors to find them and reply to them.

[eilonwy]

Oooh, good point. I'll wait 'til after Christmas (just in case) and then do that. Thanks! (I actually get the B&N coupons, too... I just didn't think of them. Oops!)