i'm totally amused by this

[lauralh]

Who Novelists Are Voting For

Some of these are nicely articulate, some are just mouth-frothy.

Comments

YES

[perich.livejournal.com]

"The left-wing political road rage directed at George W. Bush for being dumb and lying about the war reminds me of nothing so much as the right-wing obsessive invective directed at Bill Clinton for being smart and lying about sex."

Richard Dooling, I love you forever.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

orson scott card is such a chump.

and his books suck.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

no, you suck.

but he's a fascist asshole, for sure (http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html)

i suck?

[freyja.livejournal.com]

but i'm not one of his books, so how can that be so?

seriously, i hated ender's game. i can't speak for the rest of them.

Re: i suck?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

you are like the only person in the world who hated that book.

Re: i suck?

[freyja.livejournal.com]

that can't be true. it was BAD.

Re: YES

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

Because of course war and sex are the same order of magnitude.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

also, being smart and being dumb

Re: YES

[perich.livejournal.com]

Rather, because the amount of ink generated about the latter was indicative of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," while the amount of ink generated about the former is never taken as indicative of liberal media bias.

(Note: don't take this to mean that I ever liked the war)

Re: i suck?

[perich.livejournal.com]

Nope, I checked. The only one. Sorry.

Re: i suck?

[freyja.livejournal.com]

blah blah blah yackity smackity (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0812550706/ref=cm_rev_sort/103-1400417-0425428?customer-reviews.sort_by=byExactRating_1&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&x=11&y=5)