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Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: January 14, 2003 02:58PM
<HTML>Some of those Amazon reviewers were a bit Mr. Point-Completely as well. You go and call Thursday 'delightful' and then see how much it hurts where she kicks you. The Publishers Weekly person had clearly never actually read the thing (Tuesday indeed), the guy who read it without having read the back cover blurb (how do you do that?) and the misanthrope at the end who clearly mistook it for Jane Eyre and was a bit annoyed that it wasn't.
Actually I think Amazon reviewers ahould be forced to declare their interests first; if you read a slag-off (or indeed a good) review it would help if you knew how literate or otherwise the reviwer actually was.</HTML>
Actually I think Amazon reviewers ahould be forced to declare their interests first; if you read a slag-off (or indeed a good) review it would help if you knew how literate or otherwise the reviwer actually was.</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: January 14, 2003 03:46PM
<HTML>I agree that Amazon.com can be a bit dodgy in the things they recommend. They're trying so hard to build their partnerships that they're forgetting the customer. I've almost completely stopped looking at the "You might also like" section because they're so completely off the mark! (probably also way off because I've purchased so many gifts for others on Amazon, that it's messed up my own preferences LOL)
I had to go through and read a bunch of those reviews. And since I was logged in because I was voting on many of them, I didn't get to see my own, but I know it's there...towards the end. And yes, it's under A-A-C. However, I felt compelled to leave another review for the audio (CD) version.
I wasn't terribly thrilled with the audio version. Elizabeth Sastre is a bit too dry for my taste and the humor doesn't come through very well. I guess it just reads so much better in my mind. Plus the abridgement leaves off the chapter headings, which I feel, are absolutely necessary and really help explain the story (not to mention make me need to invest in my bladder control items).
All that said, though, I will probably buy the LIAGB version anyway. Mostly so my ever-resistant husband will actually get to know the story a little so he understands what I'm rambling about. Besides, I HAVE to own a copy of every version! (I don't have the Aussie versions yet and the Canadian paperbacks seem to be the same as the UK versions that I gave to my sister)
You know, I'm beginning to see why my husband just shakes his head when he sees me playing on the Fforum! LOL</HTML>
I had to go through and read a bunch of those reviews. And since I was logged in because I was voting on many of them, I didn't get to see my own, but I know it's there...towards the end. And yes, it's under A-A-C. However, I felt compelled to leave another review for the audio (CD) version.
I wasn't terribly thrilled with the audio version. Elizabeth Sastre is a bit too dry for my taste and the humor doesn't come through very well. I guess it just reads so much better in my mind. Plus the abridgement leaves off the chapter headings, which I feel, are absolutely necessary and really help explain the story (not to mention make me need to invest in my bladder control items).
All that said, though, I will probably buy the LIAGB version anyway. Mostly so my ever-resistant husband will actually get to know the story a little so he understands what I'm rambling about. Besides, I HAVE to own a copy of every version! (I don't have the Aussie versions yet and the Canadian paperbacks seem to be the same as the UK versions that I gave to my sister)
You know, I'm beginning to see why my husband just shakes his head when he sees me playing on the Fforum! LOL</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 14, 2003 09:05PM
<HTML>As has been observed, my review of LIAGB turns up helpfully close to the top of the amazon.co.uk site, and 11 out of 11 people found it helpful...
Er, I wasn't the bloke who forgot to read the back cover, was I?</HTML>
Er, I wasn't the bloke who forgot to read the back cover, was I?</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 09:37PM
<HTML>Shouldn't that be Missis T Point-Completely????</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 15, 2003 11:37PM
<HTML>What, me?
Am Iost again?</HTML>
Am Iost again?</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: Jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 11:42PM
<HTML>Nah, it's me she means. Several posts up. Was an old Goodies gag IIRC.
PS doing good on the railroad here.</HTML>
PS doing good on the railroad here.</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 16, 2003 12:03AM
<HTML>Nothing wrong with pinching old gags...</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 16, 2003 01:15PM
<HTML>Pervert.</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: January 16, 2003 02:31PM
<HTML>And the problem is?</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 17, 2003 10:05PM
<HTML>ah lol.
lpock.
(that's a dyslexic dodo there)</HTML>
lpock.
(that's a dyslexic dodo there)</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 17, 2003 10:26PM
<HTML>Pinching old gags? Not only are you a fan of bondage, but a @#$%& thief too, sir? ;-)
Sorry. I think I'm suffering from complusive punning, due to not enough sunlight...........</HTML>
Sorry. I think I'm suffering from complusive punning, due to not enough sunlight...........</HTML>
Re: Customers who wear clothes...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 17, 2003 11:41PM
<HTML>Dyslexics suffer from daily sex....</HTML>
Dyslexics
Posted by: fuzz (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 18, 2003 02:11PM
<HTML>Just one of the resons I never saw being dyslexic as a bad thing...</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 18, 2003 06:58PM
<HTML>Have you heard the one about the dyslexic Devil worhipper?
Sold his soul to Santa.
Heard about the dyslexic insomniac agnostic?
Kept awake all night wondering if God existed........
There's more!!!
*thwack* sounds of keyboard attacking in self defense...
*ow*......
I'll just go away and lie down now, shall I?</HTML>
Sold his soul to Santa.
Heard about the dyslexic insomniac agnostic?
Kept awake all night wondering if God existed........
There's more!!!
*thwack* sounds of keyboard attacking in self defense...
*ow*......
I'll just go away and lie down now, shall I?</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 18, 2003 07:28PM
<HTML>You ought to meet my online friend from Florida. Let's just say that he was part of the inspiration behind Squirdle's curse.</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 19, 2003 05:22PM
<HTML>lol. There's nothing wrong with selpping things worng. Some of my best friends are dyspeptic.
Ploikc.</HTML>
Ploikc.</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 19, 2003 05:34PM
<HTML>Well, this was the chap who told me quite seriously that someone he knew was in a "metal word". Fortunately I'm used to him...
Hic. (That was Wilfred.)</HTML>
Hic. (That was Wilfred.)</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 19, 2003 06:51PM
<HTML>Hmm, maybe he was being ironic.
(Geddit? Iron-ic? Metal word - <b>iron</b>ic? Oh never mind...)</HTML>
(Geddit? Iron-ic? Metal word - <b>iron</b>ic? Oh never mind...)</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 19, 2003 08:22PM
<HTML>OK. Twila didn't groan at your last lot of jokes, so just for you, Ben...
*throws herself on floor, rolls around in wild theatrical anguish tearing hair out, crawls into kneeling position and blubbers into keyboard, then goes and fetches herself a cup of coffee and a dried ffrog pill to recover*
Was that any good? ;-)</HTML>
*throws herself on floor, rolls around in wild theatrical anguish tearing hair out, crawls into kneeling position and blubbers into keyboard, then goes and fetches herself a cup of coffee and a dried ffrog pill to recover*
Was that any good? ;-)</HTML>
Re: Dyslexics
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 19, 2003 09:03PM
<HTML>Wrong thread, but never mind...</HTML>
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