Apr. 23rd, 2008

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not sure how he found it, but John Ringo found David Hines's review of the Keldara series.   

i have to say, issues with subscriptions aside, the more i read of *John's* reaction to the books themselves and the hub-bub surrounding them, the better i feel.  this is because it allows me to see John as human again, which is important if i ever want to be able to read his books - any of his books.  yeah, things inside get pretty knotty over when it comes to the Keldara books.

we were discussing them in chat last night, and [profile] strega42mentioned she'd like to lay out her opinions in lj behind a cut so they can have a discussion without upsetting me.  to be fair, [personal profile] luke_jaywalker asked if i would say what my issues with the series were, and i chose to answer... but it seriously winds me up.  i was struggling very hard to stay contained, so my conditions last night were that i would answer the question, but not discuss either the answer or the books.  to say my upset was obvious is probably an understatement - but that is, of course, exactly why discussion is out of the question right now.  i can barely stay coherent long enough to lay out my own opinions of what i see as the major issues, so i know any attempt at discussion is going to be seen as an attack - at best.

and i'd dearly love to lay out my own opinions on the matter in a comment-disabled post - but i can't do that, either.  i can't let this be 'real' to me yet.  there's stuff there - deep emotional shit - that i'm just not ready to face.  and if i type it out in a permanent format, it's there everyday.  it's real, and i have to face it, because it's staring me in the face, daring me to ignore it.  i get through my life one day at a time - and this just isn't the right time for facing that particular pile of shit.

at any rate, this is my favorite line from John Ringo's comment on David's review:

"If YOU think you were thinking 'OH JOHN RINGO NO!', be quite aware that that is what I was thinking most of the time. Especially in Ghost. The book was so over the top, my working title was 'The Wanker Piece.' (Marketing forced me to drop the title. :-)"

this makes me giggle.  because i can quite seriously see him saying that to himself.  'omfg!  wtf am i *doing*?!'  and then when people started saying he should publish it, i can see him going 'i cannot *seriously believe* you like this crap!  and it *is* crap!  omfg! wtf am i *doing*?!'  and it makes me like him more to know that he recognizes the wtf-ery of this particular series.

anyway.  that is today's public post.  if i post more, it'll be on the GDPfusion fic thing.

-bs

PS - and everyone who was in chat with me last night, thanks for putting up with me.  ::hugs::

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