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canon_sues someone linked to the Amazon.com reviews of Anne Rice's new novel, Blood Canticle. A lot a lot a lot of people hated it, accusing it of cardboard characters and uninteresting storyline and downright insulting diction -- Lestat, apparently, has modernized so completely that he's now talking like a seventeen-year-old beachball-brained surfer, either black or out of a terrible movie. (Quotha: "Yo." "I don't deconstruct nothin'." "It's time to boogie!") I didn't think that "modernizing" had to mean leaving your brain at the door of the 21st century.
But I don't want to review the book. I want to review her review of other people's reviews of the book. It amuses me terribly.
( 'I'm proud of having waitresses in trailer parks reading my novels, but who do you people think you are?' )
Today's political newsbyte is: In voting news, the Pentagon has restricted access to the website overseas voters, both military and civilian, can use for registering to vote, citing attempts to hack it. The story was first reported by the International Herald Tribune. Is the Pentagon, with its billions of dollars, incapable of building a simple website that is difficult to break into? And is the answer to attempted break-ins to disenfranchise overseas voters, including the servicemen and women who are defending this country with their lives? Is this how we support the troops? By taking away their right to vote?
canon_sues someone linked to the Amazon.com reviews of Anne Rice's new novel, Blood Canticle. A lot a lot a lot of people hated it, accusing it of cardboard characters and uninteresting storyline and downright insulting diction -- Lestat, apparently, has modernized so completely that he's now talking like a seventeen-year-old beachball-brained surfer, either black or out of a terrible movie. (Quotha: "Yo." "I don't deconstruct nothin'." "It's time to boogie!") I didn't think that "modernizing" had to mean leaving your brain at the door of the 21st century.But I don't want to review the book. I want to review her review of other people's reviews of the book. It amuses me terribly.
( 'I'm proud of having waitresses in trailer parks reading my novels, but who do you people think you are?' )
Today's political newsbyte is: In voting news, the Pentagon has restricted access to the website overseas voters, both military and civilian, can use for registering to vote, citing attempts to hack it. The story was first reported by the International Herald Tribune. Is the Pentagon, with its billions of dollars, incapable of building a simple website that is difficult to break into? And is the answer to attempted break-ins to disenfranchise overseas voters, including the servicemen and women who are defending this country with their lives? Is this how we support the troops? By taking away their right to vote?