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ellen_datlow ([personal profile] ellen_datlow) wrote2009-01-08 03:13 pm
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an amazon review that will disappear verrry soon

The Secret

Thanks to Livia

added later in the day: Other reviews by the intrepid Ari Brouillette, and as quizzicalsphinx reports below, he even reviews a bucket.

[identity profile] pabba.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder now if my mother got a shiv with her copy, too.

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL! Ask her, why don't you? I dare you.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
::rolls eyes::

I'm hoping a banning will follow...

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's hilarious! I doubt that anyone actually considering buying the book will expect a shiv ;-)

Great send-up of self-help books.

[identity profile] mallory-blog.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG - I'm still laughing - that's AWFUL and so funny...

[identity profile] sunpony.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. Awful, yet creative! Who knew what positive effects could come from such a terrible book?

[identity profile] wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
If a free toothbrush shiv came with the purchase of a copy of The Secret, I'd so buy it.

[identity profile] kylecassidy.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
it's so sad to think that it will no longer be. i'm glad i had the opportunity to read it.

(Are you running the Ravens in the Library thingie, or is that someone else?)

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Not I. I just contacted some people for them.

[identity profile] temporus.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That was awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[identity profile] chalkhorse.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! I posted that to my Livejournal, I think it deserves to be read.If true, it's very powerful. And that silly book deserves to have its followers shaken up a bit...

[identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy Sheep Dip!

[identity profile] lizziebelle.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That is just hysterical! I love it when people get creative like that. Especially with something so overrated as The Secret.

[identity profile] quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
His other reviews are golden. He reviews a bucket. This man is amazing.

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)

Brilliant!

[identity profile] matthewsrotundo.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That. Is brilliant.

[identity profile] jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for pointing me towards a much-needed laugh.

[identity profile] ardentdelerium.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I just finished (and reviewed at B&N.com) A Whisper of Blood, and I noticed two typos:
page 543 near the top, there's a tense switch. It says "we'd be in this room" but should be "we'd been in this room."
page 569 has "Patroclus" as "Patrodus"

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I doubt the book will go into a second printing (they've printed a lot to begin with) but I'll alert my editor.
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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2009-01-09 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
is love.

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[identity profile] lilifae.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Now that is reviewing skillz I wish I had. Awesome.