Comments | greygirlbeast: "We hope your rules and wisdom choke you."

greygirlbeast

"We hope your rules and wisdom choke you."

Feb 09, 2013 14:25

As Spooky just said, it's very wrong that people hear "Nemo" and think of that damned orange fish.

I haven't written in two days, which means the word bank - which had enough words to cover two days - is now empty. However, before I can go back to work on Red Delicious, I have to write something for Sirenia Digest #86 ( Read more... )

jules verne, word bank, amazon, winter, cats, snow, nemo, storms, poltics, holly black, censorship

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shanejayell February 9 2013, 18:35:22 UTC

Oooh. Wow.

seph_ski February 9 2013, 18:36:20 UTC

I love the snow cat, and I love how the falling snow makes the photos look too faded to be from less than 30 years ago.

greygirlbeast February 9 2013, 18:39:22 UTC

It makes the world look civilized again. You can't see the ugly, you can't see the "modern." You can't see the 21st Century.

seph_ski February 9 2013, 20:06:54 UTC

That's exactly why I love snow days so much. It turns the volume down on this too-loud, over-blown "civilization" of ours. For someone like me, who is startled by every noise and blinded by brightness, it's a welcome respite for my over-stimulated nerves.

witchchild February 9 2013, 18:54:54 UTC

We got 34" where I am. And one of the plows clearing out the condo complex got stuck. Now THAT is a snowstorm.

I went out in it too, when the accumulation was still light. Anything to keep from having to cook up my own lunch unless I have to.

greygirlbeast February 9 2013, 18:57:09 UTC

We got 34" where I am. And one of the plows clearing out the condo complex got stuck. Now THAT is a snowstorm.

Wow. We haven't had snow plows yet. We're low priority.

witchchild February 9 2013, 19:01:59 UTC

I'm amazed they were able to get over here. Yes, it's private property, but that also means the streets around me have been plowed.

p_m_cryan February 9 2013, 19:07:52 UTC

I guess I'm glad that my pop-culture-fu fails me from time to time, because my first and only reaction to hearing "Nemo" is to envision the Captain, full stop.

Huzzah, snow cat! Huzzah, Hubero! Boo on the two-facedeness of Amazon.

greygirlbeast February 9 2013, 19:10:22 UTC

I guess I'm glad that my pop-culture-fu fails me from time to time, because my first and only reaction to hearing "Nemo" is to envision the Captain, full stop.

The good for you.

Boo on the two-facedeness of Amazon.

There are work-arounds....

muse_books February 9 2013, 19:21:20 UTC

I wonder why the amazon ban on authors happened? Was it because of the scandal of authors creating 5-star reviews for each other and themselves? Of course you can review books on Goodreads. I've written a book and contributed to others not had any issue with having reviews and comments on amazon co.uk.

greygirlbeast February 9 2013, 19:23:30 UTC

I wonder why the amazon ban on authors happened? Was it because of the scandal of authors creating 5-star reviews for each other and themselves?

Something like that. However, if an author acquaintance of mine reads my book, loves it, and wants to say so on Amazon, they ought have the same right to do so as anyone else. I ought have the same right.

Of course you can review books on Goodreads.

I loathe Goodreads. For many reasons.

muse_books February 9 2013, 22:38:27 UTC

Oh I am in total agreement you should have that right and it is totally unfair that some writers have ruined it for others by using such unfair tactics. However, as you say there are work arounds.

I'm not all that keen on Amazon ratings as they so easily can be effected by those 1-star reviews where people didn't get their package on time.

Of course Goodreads is a very different type of site than a commercial one like Amazon or other bookseller. For me it is like LJ a place to interact with other readers as well as to keep track of my own books read and to be read.

aishabintjamil February 9 2013, 23:50:08 UTC

Actually it's not just authors that are banned from reviewing. Anyone who might have any personal connection with the author is banned, so your author-acquaintance is doubly-damned in their eyes - both for being an author, and for being personally acquainted with you. I've heard of a number of people who've had reviews they left for authors with whom they weren't acquainted except as fans, removed because someone at Amazon decided they must be a friend of the author.

The author thing is also in part because there is a rules against reviewing a competitor's product, and of course since books are an interchangeable commodity like hard drives or laundry detergents, we're all competing with each other in the eyes of certain people at Amazon.

It's all so mind-numbingly stupid that I've stopped leaving reviews on anything, and read them with ever greater skepticism.

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