Posted By AP on 02 Jun 2012 12:34 AM

Sheesh. The land of the fried fish sandwich: WA state, of course. And no halibut today, all I caught was the bottom, bigtime. Or to put it another way, "I fought the bottom, and the bottom won."

I guess that make me a Landofthefriedfishsandwichian.  

Posted By The Phantom on 02 Jun 2012 06:31 PM

I guess that make me a Landofthefriedfishsandwichian.  

Power to the Landofthefriedfishsandwichians!

Posted By Diablo on 02 Jun 2012 06:58 AM
hold on a min albino,why all the ?s about AP?for those of us that have been around knows AP lives in the northwest and thats all we need to know.I live in the southeast,Ron lives...well come to think of it we don't know anything about Ron.hell there might not even be a Ron....spooky

Jeez mate only asking a ?. Not planning on stalking anybody, yet.. Just trying to start abit of conversation.

Posted By silentalbino on 02 Jun 2012 11:44 PM

Posted By Diablo on 02 Jun 2012 06:58 AM
hold on a min albino,why all the ?s about AP?for those of us that have been around knows AP lives in the northwest and thats all we need to know.I live in the southeast,Ron lives...well come to think of it we don't know anything about Ron.hell there might not even be a Ron....spooky

Jeez mate only asking a ?. Not planning on stalking anybody, yet.. Just trying to start abit of conversation.

 

Diablo's point is that this isn't a PRIVATE conversation (duh), and what you plan or don't plan isn't the issue--you aren't the only person listening in.

I realize that I am as guilty as anyone else, but this thread has been so hijacked. Makes me wonder if Diablo isn't right about something else: that Ron the moderator is a figment of all our imaginations.

Posted By AP on 03 Jun 2012 04:48 PM

I realize that I am as guilty as anyone else, but this thread has been so hijacked. Makes me wonder if Diablo isn't right about something else: that Ron the moderator is a figment of all our imaginations.

Well hell, this thread is already completely derailed. I may as well pull back the curtain and reveal myself a bit more.

 (I am so tempted to insert a picture of Brad Pitt right here)

 To give you some idea of why I have been largely absent the last few days, here is what has been going on:

Snow White's Scarey Adventures - A Retrospective

SWSA Final Night - Prelude

SWSA Final Night, Part 1 - The Beginning of the End

It will take three more parts to finish telling what happened this past Thursday night, plus an epilogue. I should have the next part written and posted later today. On Friday night I flew up to Charlotte for a one day conference, and then flew back home early this morning. I've just been napping for past hour or so, and now I am starting to catch up on things.

I guess I pretty much just revealed where I live, too. Huh.

Who else is listening in??? As far as i'm aware this is a website for a book series, not the Al Qaeda sewing circle. So why all the secrecy? Not trying to be a dick, i just dont see the reason for Diablo questioning me over a question I posted to someone else. If you didnt want to say where you lived that was fine, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
Dave

And now, yeah, I'm going to step in and moderate. Let's take it down a notch, please.

Posted By silentalbino on 03 Jun 2012 05:14 PM
Who else is listening in??? As far as i'm aware this is a website for a book series, not the Al Qaeda sewing circle. So why all the secrecy? Not trying to be a dick, i just dont see the reason for Diablo questioning me over a question I posted to someone else. If you didnt want to say where you lived that was fine, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
Dave

I hope this is enough down-notch:

Silentalbino, what you see on this site now, the quality of posters and posts, isn't what this site has been in the past. Before Ron stepped up his moderation a few years ago there were not just trolls, but liars, whackjobs, creeps--one who even professed to carry Federal law enforcement "credentials." That's the sewing circle I think all of us want to avoid.

AP

Posted By silentalbino on 03 Jun 2012 05:14 PM
As far as i'm aware this is a website for a book series, not the Al Qaeda sewing circle.

I like this...

A/S/L/Blood type lol

Don't feel bad silentalbino, I got sort of the same responce when I had asked a question. But a PM from the concearned  party resolved the issue. From the sound's of things this place must of been a real treasure trove of trolls. Allthough I would like to hear the story of the 'EX-FBI' agent or whatever the situation was. Purely for the lulz that must of ensued of course.

 

Ugh. You know how some trainwrecks are fun to watch in a horrifying way, but others are just horrifying? Yeah, that second one.

Oh c'mon. Surely their were lulz? I am not a troll, as I joined this website merely by looking for a review of the new disaster- piece book. Wich I haven't even read yet (And I own it!), allthough I have read 14 books from the space I had stopped collecting at the time, in the last 9 days...Guess that is a plus. But you folks can't tempt with a ribeye flavored carrot and then button up? Can you?

Here,here good sir, please enlighten a 'noob'. Yes?

 

Laughing, Crying, it is all entertainment.

 

 

 

 

Thanks Sp. AP, we won't let these types ruin this website.Let's get back to this apparently very dreadful book.

Looks like a lot of small time animosity going on here for nothing. The book is not worth talking about anymore. It simply blows. Period.

 

I am about 117 pages into Deathlands: Wretched Earth. It is pretty damn good so far. Hellava lot better than this turd book here everyone is wasting time on. 

 

If you like Walking Dead, then you're gonna like it Deathlands style. So far, this is better than Milan's last book.

 

But something I've noticed thus far in the upcoming Wretched Earth novel: When a young boy who is the only survivor of a zombie attack is the first to tell Ryan and the companions all about this new threat, about all the details of what a zombie basically is, Mildred doesn't say something akin to: "Hey, back in my day, those would be called zombies!"

We haven't been discussing "this turd book" since page 2 - why do you think the thread's gone waaay off-topic? :lol: Although, if you're going to discuss Wretched Earth, we have another thread for that.

Maximus, I don't want to start a spat. But I do want to say that I don't think any writer's work should be called a "turd."

Posted By Wordsmith-reprise on 05 Jun 2012 03:05 PM
Maximus, I don't want to start a spat. But I do want to say that I don't think any writer's work should be called a "turd."

Wordsmith-reprise,

Why is a writer's shoddy work any different than say the shoddy work of a lawn boy or house painter or 7/11 clerk? Do writers belong to some kind of elevated class that is due special consideration--like the holy one-percent "job creators"? Or are you saying we should respect the dignity of all labor and laborers, without regard to effort and skill?  Some additional explanation would be helpful.

AP

Sir, I concede the field.

Posted By Wordsmith-reprise on 05 Jun 2012 03:49 PM
Sir, I concede the field.

Don't know why you'd "concede." Hey, I agree with you. I was playing the devil's advocate (somewhat ineffectually as it turns out). Just wanted you to clarify the point, which I have made before in this thread. Everyone does the best they can. And "the best" is entirely subjective. It is impossible to put yourself in a particular lawn boy's flipflops or GE writer's well-worn chair. And yet that unwarranted assumption keeps surfacing, like the turd that refuses to flush.

How are the poodles doing? 

When I see or read a turd...I call it a turd.

I love it when a shitty book comes out. It is those that seem to get more reviews than the good ones. 

Palaces of Turds is a dud. One of the worst DL books ever written. Everyone agrees from all the glowing reviews I've seen.

 

I have the last 97 pages left to read of the next book - Wretched Earth - and it is wayyyyyy better than the turd that Andy scraped off his Boot. (Yes, pun intended.)

Well, seeing as the older DL titles I ordered off Amazon STILL aren't here. I have run out of books I haven't read yet. Which means I will be settling in with Palaces of Light shortly, but first a beer run...