Michael’s Comments (group member since Nov 18, 2010)

Michael’s comments from the The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) group.

Okay, my favorite at this moment is one of these two. I know, I'm cheating. Sorry.

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Or Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry as Insurgent Art.

Thanks a bunjillion, Nancy! You get extra credit points!

Oh, this is fun! I'll post one soon.

Well, since I love anarchy, I'ma let you both hang around as long as you want.

I just wonder if we'll all be discarded once the "experiment" is complete. :)


Not a chance :) Although at a certain point I might have to change the group name (once the project is done), I plan on letting this be a place where people can bring up questions they have for other goodreaders indefinitely. Even if/when the group dies down, there's no way I'll delete it.

This conversation, which reaches all over GR and includes many people who do not know that they are in some way conversing with me (likewise I'm sure I do not realize who I may be conversing with), is probably my favorite thing about GR now.

Aha! VERY well-put.

I think I wasn't quite successful in making it my own since writing is one of my weakest points

I don't know what you're talking about. Your reviews are awesome.

I began with short blurbs, but these days, I try to write serious reviews.

What do you mean by serious? Somewhat scholarly? Including book summaries and useful background info?

nice to get a little PacNW here to offset the arizonian horde!

Arizona is definitely a horde state. Trolls mostly, I'd say.

Well timed twss, Jasmine.

This is mostly geared towards those who have been on goodreads for more than a year, although I'm sure some people who have been on here for a shorter length of time can trace some kind of evolution in their reviews.

Back when I started adding books and writing reviews, they tended to be roughly a paragraph long, and were usually pretty bland and uninspired...I really hadn't thought much about what I was communicating, and didn't have a firm sense of what could be done with a book review. Then, my style gradually changed. I'll post later in the thread about this because I want to get to the question.

As you think (or look) back over your past reviews chronologically, where did you START as a reviewer when you joined this site? Then, can you identify any big changes in your method of reviewing since then? Do you know what caused them?

I'd love some detail on this one, so feel free to be as long-winded as you'd like to be. This is one of the questions that will most directly tie in with the final written version of my project.

*As a reminder, if I'm going to quote you, I will get in touch with you to make sure you're comfortable with how I'm using the quote.*

HEY, you've never offered ME a book! WTF?

In the miscellaneous section of this group, a couple of discussions are going on that have more to do than reading/book collecting than goodreads itself. Physical book organization would be a cool thing to start another topic about...but I'm not doing it because I'm about to launch a couple other new threads.

This might be too tangentially related to go, but you want to be a total completist, check out the trilogy by Robin Hobb that begins with Assassin's Apprentice. Go only becomes involved through books 2 and 3, and it isn't called go because it's a fantasy world, but it obviously is. This'll probably only be worth it to you if you like fantasy, though.

I feel bad about the animals and whatnot, and eventually I'll be a vegetarian once I switch to a raw-food diet. I'm going vegetarian because I'm going raw, though, not because I feel an ethical imperative to go vegetarian immediately. As I've mentioned in other threads, the ethical issues about eating food are ridiculously complex, and the whole thing is designed in the favor of big businesses. Perhaps I'm species-ist, but I'm more concerned about this human oppression than animal oppression.

But I would eat millionaires if I knew how to cook 'em. Just throwing that out there.

I hadn't thought of shelving books by country, nor do I have a shelf for Go books. But at home, my nonfiction is in Dewey Decimal order, which I am absurdly proud of.

Fifteen cool points! You're now winning the illustrious cool points contest, Jackie.

Alright, I have finally gone through all of the bureaucratic steps necessary to set this sultry gnome as the new image (i.e. I've finally caught up on this thread and seen the picture.) Terrific work, team! This guy is even more awesome than the penis tree, and that's saying something.

Mariel wrote: "I think the troll whoring is working. Someone commented to one of my reviews "pornographic pretentious drivel". (Or they might've meant the book.)"

Considering your painfully hilarious comment right before that troll arrived, I'm guessing it was directed at you, Mariel!

Guilty pleasure reads?



My guilty pleasures are really really trashy old pulp novels. Guy N Smith is one of my favorite authors for providing these, but I also have a couple of these on my shelf to be read when i'm feeling decadent:

so many threads have taken on this type of vein :)

Uh, oh! does that mean people aren't focusing on actually addressing the questions these threads were designed for? I'm assuming this means they've already answered them then? If not, HEADS WILL ROLL!

Signed,

The Ebel Oberlord Michael

1. Pope hat. 'Nuff said.

2. "Blessid art thou, you naughty bitch!" (It goes well with the hat.)

3. Ewwww, nobody wants to see THAT, other than you perverts!

4. "Would you mind putting the pope hat on the counter? You can just drop the money there, too. Don't forget to take my card on the way out."

"What's your favorite sex hat?" (Condoms don't count)

"What's your favorite sex battle cry?" (Must be a word, not something like UUUUNNNNNGGGGGG!)

"What's your favorite sex position to watch tortoises mate in?"

I've got more, but these are the three that seem most central to this study.