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Annie Proulx's memoir.
Front-Ranger:
Becoming a Brokie wreaks havoc on one's grammar, as well!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 17, 2011, 10:00:20 am ---Becoming a Brokie wreaks havoc on one's grammar, as well!!
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I thought of that, too.
"If reviewers gave bad reviews to writers they thought was better than theme" is simply Brokese, like "We was good friends."
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: crayonlicious on March 15, 2011, 01:17:47 pm ---Spiteful? I wonder why several different reviewers would feel spite toward AP.
I'm thinking it's probably just that different people hold different opinions. Though I would say that Lee, completely understandably, probably went into the book with the opposite of spite toward AP.
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Right. It might, just might have been that the reviewer just plain didn't like the book. There's all kinds of reasons for that; spite would be only one of them.
IMO most of us tend to enthusiastically agree with reviews of things we like or that had a special meaning for us; when the reviews are negative then it's "what was this person thinking?"
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: crayonlicious on March 17, 2011, 10:40:55 am ---I thought of that, too.
"If reviewers gave bad reviews to writers they thought was better than theme" is simply Brokese, like "We was good friends."
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Imagine Ennis saying "yes, we were on very friendly terms"! :laugh:
Front-Ranger:
I was hoping some other people would read and comment on this. Bearing the March wind here in the Rocky Mountains and imagining how the eagles are soaring above Bird Cloud, delighting in it.
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