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
Tag Archives: How do you know that?
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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Matched Chapter 31
Surely after all that Ally has put us through, we’re done with all the talking. Nothing has happened, Cassia fell for the first heartbeat to get close to her and then got taken away. She still has a chance to … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 30
What is it with these hacks tossing in a random villain? Meyer did it twice, using Victoria in Twilight and then an evil woman in a pantsuit in Host. PCk did it with Neferet suddenly just becoming the villain and … Continue reading
Matched Chapter 29
Seriously, what will it take before a plot point has to be reached? Or does Ally consider Cassia becoming a deputy sorting hat the climax? Because there’s not much paper pulp left in this table propping hunk of words Ally … Continue reading
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Tagged A Wild Villain Appears, How do you know that?, Talk talk talk
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Matched Chapter 28
So I’ve been thinking about Matched again. Which I probably shouldn’t and I really don’t intend to. Sometimes I’ll just be driving along, in silence and letting the old subconscious just throw things at me while I fume at traffic … Continue reading
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 14
Maybe all these people are supposed to be living in the sorting hat. Maybe this whole “Society” is really a collection of people that all fell into the hat and never came out, instead opting to start a new life. … Continue reading
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Tagged How do you know that?, Impressively Boring, Me am Special
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Betrayed Chapter 7
We rejoin Zoey in the vampire’s dining hall. Great, I can’t wait for PCK to tell us how special Zoey is for being invited. Oh, and their dining hall isn’t a cafeteria either. Zoey assures us it’s a very cool … Continue reading
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Tagged Better than Everybody at Everything, How do you know that?, Me am Leader
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Inheritance Chapter 69
Well this is just great. Ten chapters to go and the head boss is already dead. And Eragon only met with him for two chapters. The fights between Eragon and Murtagh were handled with literary dignity on par with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 'splosions, How do you know that?, Poof! Magic
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Inheritance Chapter 58
This chapter is called “the city of sorrows”. That’s the city where hack authors go to write. It’s nothing but one giant Starbucks illuminated by the soft glow of laptop screens and lid logos. The stench of overpriced coffee never … Continue reading
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Tagged Do As I Say!, How do you know that?, Me am Side Character
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