So I am eagerly reading each chapter that his doling out of his latest work "The High King of Montvail" and waiting with bated breath for the final version to come out in September. You know how he does it? He gets you hooked with a chapter by chapter come on and then you have read half the book but you buy it anyway! He is up to Chapter Seven already ..and then...AND THE...HE DOES IT!!!!!!!!!!
What does he do! HE INSULTS THE QUIET MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the offending passage:“The Quiet Man,” Juniper said with a wince. “A fine movie if you don’t mind assuming my mother’s entire people were a race of happily drunken potato-faced wife-beating peasant yokels with room-temperature IQ’s who thought with their fists when they weren’t clog-dancing or killing each other in fits of mindless religious fanaticism. It’s annoying that sort of thing can be.”
Can you believe it!!! He is just doing this to piss me off!
I have to do something about this...I just have to figure out what!
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Is Juniper the hero?
Maybe SM Stirling is foreshadowing that Juniper turns out to be an asshole.
Pure guesswork. Haven't read a thing by Stirling.
Ya know Trooper, I having trouble discovering the insult.
Well, maybe the wife beating part.
Hell; you ought to try being German!
But then again, maybe it ain't the slur against the people, but the slur agianst the movie, and the Duke.
Now THAT is unforgivable.
Here's how you get back:
Don't by the damn book; borrow it from the library.
Several times.
Juniper is the mother of the hero no less. And a major character in her own right.
The series is great but he can't be dissing the Duke and "The Quiet Man."
I might have to sic Darcy on him!
Hey TY...
Nothing like the installment tease.
Are you familiar with a guy named Dick Estell who was or is "the radio reader"? he reads about half an hour a day and is really good...I used to plan my day to be in the car driving when he came on.
If I may presume, there is an old book called "Or I'll dress you in mourning"...it is about spain and bullfighting..written by the guys, can't think of their names, but they wrote "is paris burning". it may be out of print but if you can dig it up somewhere my bet is you will like it a lot.
Thanks hd, I will check it out.
I read about three books a week, although I must admit I am reading more and more of them on-line.
The installment tease does work though. One of my other favorite authors is Eric Flint and all he seems to do is write what he calls "snippets" which are parts of his new works. It is a great marketing ploy if the readers are aware of it. It certainly creates buzz.
OT but I need the space and hadn't noticed your post on the atrocious series 2 & 1/2 men (weenies) until today.
Even though I've never seen it, I could always tell from the billboards advertising it what a piece of trash it is. I mean, Charlie Sheen? Are you fucking kidding me? Charlie Sheen?! That guy has a permanent creep-out factor to his voice and eyebrow (if I had to break it down to any specific attributes) and an eye that always seems wandering around toward a focal point located at about the interviewer's crotch. Which I suppose makes sense in light of his extracurriculars - although in Sheen's case, the extracurriculars seemed to define his life in the first place.
And then the other guy, I guess I never realized that he's John Cryer. Not much better but my initial assumption was that he was that freaky way-too-over-the-top garishly shallow and effeminate fairy from Will and Grace.
The kid is the man but has to be 2 and a 1/2 to make up for the other two sorry excuses for humanity.
Men really are portrayed as wastes of human space all throughout Hollywood sitcoms, aren't they?
Plus, Charlie Sheen is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Sheesh.
Have you read The Little Prince?
He's...I mean it's.. quite popular these days.
Charlie Sheen has terrific comic timing.
Montana Ritmo, if you've never seen 2 1/2 Men how do you presume to comment about it? The show makes no pretense about being serious or important, it is just a very professionally packaged piece of light comedy and succeeds as such.
I don't pretend that Charlie Sheen can't be a good actor (and BTW, what does that have to do with character? Before motion pictures, actors didn't have access to celebrity, let alone a soapbox for opining on matters of moral import to them and supposedly us. And in antiquity, they were given the same level of respect as prostitutes).
I just think he's a devolved and creepy sort, and conveys that in his physical presence ever moreso as the years wear on. Maybe that doesn't matter to a sitcom, but you're talking to the wrong person. I cashed in my cable subscription - (and in the age of high-definition signal, network access along with it) - years ago.
Great decision. I have no regrets. Just about anything I should seriously need to view I can find online. For someone who grew up in the waning zenith of the idiot-box era, I can't be freer of such sources of hypnosis. Not that I can't identify quality programming. I just doubt most sitcoms are it.
You disagree. Fine. Trooper and the gang seem to have their own opinion on what the show conveys, and one that I don't think I see reason to disagree with.
These are all tangents based on the discussion of how well Charlie Sheen could portray a serious father. I'm sure plenty of louts have incredible comic timing, but I'm sure I'd have rather watched them on HBO back in the day than on some network allegedly devoted to "family programming".
There are a lot of great shows on TV Ritmo. It's all about choice.
Justified, Wipe Out, Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Ice Road Truckers, Real Housewives, What Not to Wear, Mercy, How I Met Your Mother and Jersey Shore are all a lot of fun.
Plus TVLand has all the great old shows from the past.
Oh and I bet the ndw Lewis CK show is gonna be a hoot.
Well she has a point....;-)
Hell; you ought to try being German!
Oh puhleease. Try being Polish and all your friends are Krauts and after a night out drinking they all beat you up and cornhole your dog.
Now that's some boool shit.
Lately the wife and I have been watching a series on Stars (I think) called Party Down about a catering company of that name. Very funny.
One character is a Sarah Palin look-alike.
Ice Road Truckers I remember. Yes, I would watch that.
Oh puhleease. Try being Polish and all your friends are Krauts and after a night out drinking they all beat you up and cornhole your dog.
Now that's some boool shit.
See what I mean?
Everytime somebody tries to out drink a German sh.... STUFF happens and its our fault.
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