Edda van Heefmstra Ruston Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Does anyone ever adventure trepidly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I'm awaiting 55 threads devoted to Mike Miller and Kurt Russell playing the role of Mystar. Almost tempted to add this book to my reviewing queue just to see if lightning can strike twice and an author can attempt to shit directly into a reader's soul. I did something similar when this book was being pushed on another forum in the exact same way. And had the same Goodreads policy of make suckpuppets that only review one book and rate the same other four. To date the author has told me I was wrong under three different names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CityApache Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Poor bastard, I almost feel sorry for him. :DHe couldn't have possibly chosen worse board to start such a thread, could he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I did something similar when this book was being pushed on another forum in the exact same way. And had the same Goodreads policy of make suckpuppets that only review one book and rate the same other four. To date the author has told me I was wrong under three different names. Ah, the power of three. You are wrong then, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EruditeFool Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I did something similar when this book was being pushed on another forum in the exact same way. And had the same Goodreads policy of make suckpuppets that only review one book and rate the same other four. To date the author has told me I was wrong under three different names. You'd think authors would be smarter than to push books on the forum this way. What's their issue with being overt about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Just came back and see that this thread has been on fire with hate. I guess that's what happens when you try to start an intelligent conversation in a kid's forum. Bye bye then. FWIW, I thought you would have been way better than Swayze in Roadhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 like KurtR.He was far more in depth than any of Mike Miller's other characters exactly the correct response. this is a viable pomo artform, where the 'novel' to be sold is simply an excuse to generate the staneksock 'reviews.' the marketing is accordingly the text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdyphillip Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 What is the matter with you childlike people? Clearly this is a herald to the next great inspiration in fantasy literature. KurtR is obviously the John the Baptist to the Mike Miller messiah. I can only assume that this entire site will be filled with plagues going henceforth. (Also, just trying out the new moniker.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 This performance art is so meta that I think I may weep. Death of the author is so last century; now the author merely exists in the mind of a hundred sockpuppets. Its like House of Leaves cosplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixodes Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 While I spent the past day trying to come up with a Vivian St Black wank joke to post, this thread lifted above the level of my discourse. Dammit. I wish I would have been able to think of something sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 It's really disgusting to read this party of douches. It's wrong to cheat, lie and pretend, but you are being intorerable. Is it that hard to ignore the author or be polite or just wrote short post "You fool now one"/"Mike has multiple aliases, check..."? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Now you're serving up indignation with a side o' childish insult (after insulting everyone's intelligence in the first place)? Yes, you certainly seemed only interested in "intelligent conversation" :rolleyes: Well played, sir! How can he have interest in intelligent conversation with people who express hate towards him as poster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of the North Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 How can he have interest in intelligent conversation with people who express hate towards him as poster? Um...I may not be exactly sure what you're getting at here but the "hatred" expressed toward him is simply the logical reaction to someone who insults everyone else's intelligence in their very first post. He is very likely the author of the book he's trying to drum up interest in trying to use a "sock puppet" to do so (i.e. pretending to be just an enthusiastic reader gushing about the work). If he hadn't insulted everyone's intelligence right off the bat and was more forthcoming/honest in the first place then he just may have gotten some "intelligent conversation" or, at least, not been so rightly ridiculed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 now now, no need to be on fire with hate, LWR. I get that self-published writers are just trying to make it; that point is well founded. the board does however have a long memory and a short temper regarding a few issues; brand new socks are one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Amazing. Just found this thread and read the whole thing. Twice I had to get up and leave my desk so the patients wouldn't see me laughing uncontrollably. Bravo everyone involved. Bravo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arataniello Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I followed the link in the OP. I am especially looking forward to my reading of "Randolph Rudolph the Radioactive Boy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EruditeFool Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I followed the link in the OP. I am especially looking forward to my reading of "Randolph Rudolph the Radioactive Boy". He had a very shiny Glow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaybeMike Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 You guys are a bunch of a-holes that are jaundiced-eyed because HE'S AN ACTUAL AUTHOR. You all can just spew your venom in animus envy; I'll sleep fine at night, will you?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 The beautiful irony is that this snarky thread has far higher quality writing then the dreck being pimped. I know self-publishing must be a nightmare of just wishing that somebody, anybody would notice your book and help to start some buzz. I agree that marketing will become the new art form. In a decade no-one will read the actual books anymore. Goodreads will effectively be the serialization of the novel in a new form. Markson's Vanishing Point is already hinting at this new structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EruditeFool Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 You guys are a bunch of a-holes that are jaundiced-eyed because I'M AN ACTUAL AUTHOR. You all can just spew your venom in animus envy; I'll sleep fine at night, will you?. Dude, calm down. We're not angry that you're an actual author. These guys are laughing because this has to be the fiftieth time someone has used sockpuppets to promote their work. If you want to self-promote, do it as yourself. I even created a thread for it. http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/120973-official-blatant-but-honest-self-promotion-thread/ By the way, I'm an actual author as well (and very new). I promote my work openly. I have not made fun of your books as I have not read them yet. I would be more than willing to give them a fair shot. (Please don't sockpuppet me with negative reviews) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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