Oh. My. God. The pretentiousness. The arrogance. And yes, her comments sound *exactly* like a lot of bad fan writers.
Hey, if you haven't already heard about it or read it, you should check out "A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose," by B. R. Myers, which skewers some of the bloated, overblown, *crapastic* writing that passes for "literature" these days, and is absolutely hilarious.
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Date: 2004-09-21 08:23 pm (UTC)Oh. My. God. The pretentiousness. The arrogance. And yes, her comments sound *exactly* like a lot of bad fan writers.
Hey, if you haven't already heard about it or read it, you should check out "A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose," by B. R. Myers, which skewers some of the bloated, overblown, *crapastic* writing that passes for "literature" these days, and is absolutely hilarious.