Smile! You're On Facebook! (And Some Concentrated Evil)

[zombiegoat]

Should you wish to find me on Facebook, here I am:

http://www.facebook.com/jesselcairns

Add if you like.
Now to something awful, and I only wish I was describing the web site by the same name.  Earlier today I was having a converation via text with mermaidinparis  and she gave me a pep talk by telling me that I was sure to get published soon because, after all, if

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[emilia_romagna]

Actually, I think the addition of zombies can do nothing but improve Jane Austen's writing. Pride and Prejudice is a complete and utter snore-fest.

[zombiegoat]

That's why I called her novel a "boring-as-fuck polemic," because most classic literature has a tendency to make my pitch face-down into its pages and drool all over it. wever, the fact that somebody even thought of this idea, let alone did it, got it published, spilled wonderful critical ink in its name and has also sold the movie rights make me want to commit a serious felony.

Or, as I originally said: "What the fuck? Like, what the fucking fuck?"

[emilia_romagna]

I think this might be a case of a book that we, as a literate people (... don't laugh!), are supposed to appreciate that boring-as-fuck polemic for its rich history and artfully dreadful run on sentences. However, being practical action-movie-watching, comic-book-reading proles, it takes an injection of the undead (and apparently ninjas? WTF, mate?) to make it even remotely interesting. So now, we've got half a billion people reading this schlock and saying, "My my, I really love what they did with Mr Darcy, how he ate that dreadful Mr Whatshisfuck at the country ball," so that they can pretend they had read (and enjoyed!) the original, thus increasing their perceived literature smarts, without actually having to stab their eyes out the way those of us who did slog through the original have.

What the fucking fuck indeed.