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- Anti-shurtugal Further Discussion on Bad Books
- Battlefield Earth Spork Covering L. Ron’s second largest waste of pulp
- Conjugalfelicity More Sporking
- Eye of Argon MST3K A riff on a terrible short from the seventies
- ImpishIdea Sporkings and Essays on Writing
- Kris Norge's Essays An in depth looks at tactics in a few series including the Eragon series.
- Mission Earth Recaps A series I’ve read and laughed at myself.
- Rejecter Blog A semi inactive blog about Query letters.
- Slushpile Hell Query letters from an Agent’s perspective.
- Snark Squad One of the best Fity Shades sporks in my opinion. They also do some TV shows and various other books.
- Verprose A far more comprehensive list of sporks than my little link bar
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Matched Chapter 27
With all the tension in the air, Cassia is stressed. Probably because she’s never felt stress before and it’s entirely new to her. How does she deal with it? By meeting with Ky on a hill? That’s a very good … Continue reading
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Tagged Evil Just Because, How Do You Figure?, Me am Dumb Hero
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Matched Chapter 26
Ally has seven chapters left to make good on a story. I know it won’t happen, you know it won’t happen but we can all hope. I do wonder if Ally cared about this book when she wrote it. Was … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 25
Being as this is a book that get’s filed under “romance”, what would you think the focus of the story is? I mean, Ally is clearly not giving us much detail about “the Society”. Cassia’s personality is still MIA and … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 24
Why did Ally make a lot of short, little chapters? I can understand one or two scattered throughout a book. Sometimes a little piece of the story doesn’t belong in the middle of another but it still needs to be … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 23
White space had a lot of advantages, Cassia reflected. It was very malleable, for one. Given the right amount of will and forethought, it could be anything she wanted it to be. From the boardroom in an office to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Center of Everything, Evil Just Because, Talk talk talk
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Matched Chapter 22
I know I’ve harped on the chaste teen thing a lot through more than a few books. It’s not because I need a book filled with teens boning each other senseless. It’s because these hacks seem either squicked by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dull Details, How do you know that?, Looking for the plot
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Matched Chapter 21
We begin with Cassia saying that she’s finding it hard to concentrate. I would imagine that’s true. In order to concentrate you need to possess a brain and that toaster she uses as a surrogate doesn’t have a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged Going Nowhere Fast, Talk talk talk, Where'd that come from?
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Matched Chapter 20
This chapter begins with Cassia walking home from the bus stop. Really, Ally? You felt that was a detail that couldn’t be ignored? You don’t spend any words on these “air-trains” or the buildings and rarely on the manner of … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 19
Cassia is back on the bus which is really the most boring place to start no matter who you are. That’s why even Speed, a movie about a bus laden with explosives, began with an elevator. Busses are like the … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 18
The first thing that told Cassia that something was wrong, was the way her hands were bound. It wasn’t the friendly kind of binding done with silk scarves, supple calves leather straps or even cheap fuzzy hand cuffs purchased from … Continue reading
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