Blogroll
- 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: January 2014
Burned Chapters 13 & 14
Chapter 13 When we last left off, Stevie had managed to summon vampire satan. Which was kind of impressive as PCK had set that up, albeit books ago. Though Nyx making sure to tell Zoey about dark not equating to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dull Details, How do you know that?, Talk talk talk
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Burned Chapters 11 & 12
Chapter 11 I hate when a story repeats itself through character conversation. Much like how a word repeated to yourself begins to sound like nonsense, so do story details. There’s no fucking excuse for it either, it’s just padding for … Continue reading
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Tagged A Wild Villain Appears, Talk talk talk, The Story Is Repeating Itself
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Burned Chapters 9 & 10
Chapter 9 Now over to Stark who’s interviewing himself for narrative purposes. For the second time in the entire series, we’re getting a point of view from a male character. I didn’t think much about it when it was Heath … Continue reading
Burned Chapters 7 & 8
Chapter 7 Even when the writing improves, i.e. when it shifts away from Zoey, PCK never manages to get too good. As we rejoin Stevie talking to Rephy and they’re going over things we already know. Like how Kalona’s body … Continue reading
Burned Chapters 5 & 6
Chapter 5 Let’s talk about pop culture again, shall we? Once again, PCK felt the need to name drop something from pop culture, in this case True Blood. I’ve already talked about how PCK’s culture in universe wouldn’t resemble anything … Continue reading
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Tagged Gasp and Shock, Not Missing the Protagonist, Talk talk talk
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Burned Chapters 3 & 4
Chapter 3 We join Stevie now who’s says she feels like “a big ol’ pile of poo”. Stevie now having adopted Zoey’s personal prohibition against swearing because she’s a fucking wuss. Though so far, this book is doing a great … Continue reading
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