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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #100 on: March 15, 2011, 09:19:40 pm »
Quote from: crayonlicious on March 15, 2011, 01:49:35 pm
If reviewers gave bad reviews to writers they felt was better than them,

In fact, I'm a book reviewer, myself, and I give bad reviews to all writers whose subjects and verbs agree.

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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #101 on: March 15, 2011, 10:51:39 pm »
Quote from: crayonlicious on March 15, 2011, 09:19:40 pm
In fact, I'm a book reviewer, myself, and I give bad reviews to all writers whose subjects and verbs agree.

Yes, subject/verb agreement are SO twentieth century!!
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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #102 on: March 16, 2011, 08:26:39 pm »
Quote from: crayonlicious on March 15, 2011, 01:49:35 pm
If reviewers gave bad reviews to writers they felt was better than them,

I noticed that yesterday. I just tactfully averted my eyes, as from another's nakedness. ...
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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #103 on: March 17, 2011, 12:15:41 am »
You reminded me of that scene in Little Big Man where Faye Dunaway is "washing" the "boy" Dustin Hoffman and says "I shall avert my eyes".  :laugh:
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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #104 on: March 17, 2011, 08:59:13 am »
Quote from: Jeff  Wrangler on March 16, 2011, 08:26:39 pm
I noticed that yesterday. I just tactfully averted my eyes, as from another's nakedness. ...

 :laugh:  It's funny how I've managed to make a (semi) living as a writer without ever learning basic rules of grammar!

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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #105 on: March 17, 2011, 10:00:20 am »
Becoming a Brokie wreaks havoc on one's grammar, as well!!
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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #106 on: March 17, 2011, 10:40:55 am »
Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 17, 2011, 10:00:20 am
Becoming a Brokie wreaks havoc on one's grammar, as well!!

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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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #107 on: March 19, 2011, 04:51:05 pm »
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.

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?" 
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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #108 on: March 19, 2011, 04:52:25 pm »
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."



Imagine Ennis saying "yes, we were on very friendly terms"!   :laugh:
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Re: Annie Proulx's memoir.
« Reply #109 on: March 31, 2011, 05:13:57 pm »
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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