Jasmine’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2010)

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

is this the touchdown jesus that god smited with lightning?

michael I think you should include in your project that when you took too long the group got bored and started asking questios for you.

this group is out of control, I won't be reading these until tonight they require thinking.

If I know the person I will vote for any review including "review to come"
because karen tells me to.
because it makes people feel good

if I don't know the person
the review is well written or makes a good point.
I agree with the review
I have nothing better to do

Manny wrote: " Was that a reference to my attempts to convince you that Houellebecq actually isn't so bad?"

he's lovely.

i had multiple from different countries, which means you have to learn the entire language again in a different dialect. but you do learn fun things like several types of love are distinguished (I want to have sex with you vs. romantic love) not that I remember these words.

Choupette wrote: "Well, I had to look up ضابط in a dictionary. Senior officer? High standard?"

yeah I can say some other things if I really think about it, but I haven't tried to spell in arabic in a couple years so I was questioning the right d and k... you know. According to my teacher who was Lebanese the actual translation is general, but yeah that's the literal. Of course the one thing I know of the top of my head is the thing that would get my head taken off.


Kathrina wrote: "II introduced it to my 11-year-old son, and now he's becoming as addicted as me -- not just a reader, a goodreader. "

that is like the most adorable thing ever.

Choupette wrote: "Jasmine wrote: "good luck with the arabic, that's tough."

No way, Arabic is the easy part."

then you're a genius. I took two years of it and ended up giving up.

ضابط كبير

maybe... I forget.

It could just be me but when presented with a choice between sites (facebook, myspace, etc) I prefer goodreads (part of this might be the lack of my mother). What is it about goodreads that keeps bringing us back?

good luck with the arabic, that's tough.

karen emails me if I miss a review. or tells me at work, I did that to her once.

I vote whored once when I had a really bad day and I posted in a group I'd feel better if people voted for my review. I got like 10 votes out of it.

I don't know. I wouldn't actually do it, just like I wouldn't actually force people to vote for me, but I would certainly consider it.

ha, mine is also this week, I'm not on any ovverall.

okay I was seriously considering picking a new country so I could feel better about my self, no I really live in andorra I swear!

yeah in america. did i not mention earlier no one votes for my reviews except karen.

karen votes for all my reviews, I don't want to seem like I don't appreciate that.

as a sidenote unlike richard I believe I am #11 on the list.

okay really the vote whoring thing is complicated, because unlike karen I don't have a billion friends who vote for my reviews, and I don't actually think the quality of my reviews is at all relevant to which ones get votes. People vote for my reviews based on the book I am reviewing caris' book and torn got a lot of votes but my latour review (which was thoughtful and well written by the way) got none, except I think greg and mfso, I'm too lazy to check, this is because no one actually cares what I think of latour cause no one has any fucking idea who strange french philosophy of science guys are.

I like being on the top votes list and I expect anything I review by mykle hansen or david foster wallace to get a lot of votes, but generally I don't tailor content for votes since I think it doesn't help.

I do tailor content to avoid changing other people's opinions, such as putting pictures in my review of torn to block karen from getting sucked in by my opinion, and I have multiple reviews of books I don't like that specifically instruct people who like the book not to bother reading my review.

next time!!

did you try coke and cleaning that's what wallace has been suggesting? might be more fun then sick cleaning.