Ser Plissken Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I've never disposed of an author, myself. How do you go about it?Whack him over the head with half-a-bannister and throw him into a car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I forgot Simmons time traveling war-with-Muslims thing. This reminds me of Grant Morrison's review of Frank Miller's nonsense: Batman vs. Al Qaeda! It might as well be Bin Laden vs. King Kong! Or how about the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind up against a hungry Hannibal Lecter! For all the good it's likely to do. Cheering on a fictional character as he beats up fictionalized terrorists seems like a decadent indulgence when real terrorists are killing real people in the real world. I'd be so much more impressed if Frank Miller gave up all this graphic novel nonsense, joined the Army and, with a howl of undying hate, rushed headlong onto the front lines with the young soldiers who are actually risking life and limb 'vs' Al Qaeda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Whack him over the head with half-a-bannister and throw him into a car?Damn, I shoulda known that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Abercrombie Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 It would be difficult to whack an author with half a bannister. He's the guy who broke the 4 minute mile. It's a banister you're after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 It would be difficult to whack an author with half a bannister. He's the guy who broke the 4 minute mile. It's a banister you're after.Well, actually....if yer gonna be terribly precise.....In American, in any case, a "banister" is the long long rail that goes up the side of the stair. Kinda hard to have "half" of one of those.The word you are probably looking for is actually "baluster", which refers to the vertical supports which hold the banister up./pedant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Well, actually....if yer gonna be terribly precise.....In American, in any case, a "banister" is the long long rail that goes up the side of the stair. Kinda hard to have "half" of one of those.The word you are probably looking for is actually "baluster", which refers to the vertical supports which hold the banister up./pedantoh you could have half of one. it would just be very unwieldy and hard to whack someone with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 oh you could have half of one. it would just be very unwieldy and hard to whack someone withSince I was being Terribly Precise, I shoulda said something like "*usually* refers to" or "more generally refers to". I just looked up the terms some more, and apparently there's actually quite a bit of overlap between the two terms. And "banister" is often used to indicate both the vertical and horizontal elements together, which would be especially difficult to whack somebody with./pedant again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galleymac Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 "Bannister" is a valid variant U.S. spelling according to the American Heritage Dictionary, but the single-N version is preferred. And I'm sorry and sheepish over here, but I got paid to say things like the preceding sentence for ten years; it's reflex. *hides* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Abercrombie Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 As, I am reasonably sure, the only author around here who has actually been hit over the head with a banister, baluster, or bannister, I demand the proper respect accorded to real life experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagilki Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Yet that also disproves the effectiveness of that tactic in disposing of Authors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 As, I am reasonably sure, the only author around here who has actually been hit over the head with a banister, baluster, or bannister, I demand the proper respect accorded to real life experience.Hey, I would think getting whacked with a whole banister would be much more impressive than getting whacked with a mere baluster. I salaam in your general direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Yet that also disproves the effectiveness of that tactic in disposing of Authors.Okay, now THAT was a good catch. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eejit Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Not exactly hating (though she's "not a huge fan of fantasy") but I was terribly amused by JKR saying she hadn't realised that her series was fantasy until after it was published.Pratchett's response was priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted June 2, 2012 Author Share Posted June 2, 2012 Not exactly hating (though she's "not a huge fan of fantasy") but I was terribly amused by JKR saying she hadn't realised that her series was fantasy until after it was published.Pratchett's response was priceless.I thought Pratchett's response to that was just a mean spirited old man being an asshole. I intensely dislike that man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagilki Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 For the uninformed (me) what was Pratchetts response? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted June 2, 2012 Author Share Posted June 2, 2012 Oh Frank Miller. I think I dispise him more than Card, if that's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 For the uninformed (me) what was Pratchetts response?Here (linking to Gaiman's blog because it's the only place I can find the letter reproduced in its entirety rather than the BBC's best-of) and clarified his position here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Rowling didn't re-invent anything, as far as I can tell, and I say that as a fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frodostark Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Here (linking to Gaiman's blog because it's the only place I can find the letter reproduced in its entirety rather than the BBC's best-of) and clarified his position here.Hilariously, the "astonishingly badly written and worse researched" Time magazine article about Rowling that set Gaiman and Pratchett off came from none other than future fantasy author Lev Grossman.I thought Pratchett's response to that was just a mean spirited old man being an asshole. I intensely dislike that man.Really?? You and I are certainly finding a lot to disagree on lately...That might make for an interesting new thread: well-regarded authors you somehow don't care for. Mine's Neil Gaiman, as it turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Bwahaha, I hadn't realised before that it was Grossman (probably because I read that piece before I'd heard of Grossman). But sticking their names consecutively into google, I found this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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