To quote a great man, “what the fuck is up with this shit?”
This is an actual, verbatum quotation from one of those lists of “customer reviews” that you see on book sites like Amazon or B&N. If you don’t believe me, you can see for yourself:
In what kind of fucked up world does a numbnuts like this get to review one of the greatest American authors – nay, one of the greatest authors of the entire English language?
My hope was restored when reading the next review, alledgedly from a sixth grader:
A little syntax trouble, but not at all bad for an eleven year old! And it’s mostly spelled correctly. I weep for the present and hope for the future.
There was this kid who was a big trouble maker in school. He’d pick fights, steal, make fun of people and generally act out in unacceptable and sometimes dangerous ways. He was constantly failing his subjects and could barely even read by sixth grade. Everyone thought he was a complete moron- including me, the geekiest kid in the class.
Then I sat next to him in a group. Imagine the biggest geek next to the biggest trouble maker! I though I was going to get hurt. But the first thing he does when we are alone is talk about Einstein. He had a pretty good grasp on physics gleaned from god knows where- certainly not his home. And he had a genuine love of learning. His eyes gleamed when he talked about it. He got no academic support, and his parents beat him. He never got any praise and never tried to learn except in secret.
I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that he had so many fucking spelling errors or that I didn’t notice them until the second time I read it. Seriously, why the fuck does the internet seem to attract such morons?
Nah - there’s something beyond bad spelling going on there. That’s someone who was drunk, can’t type, or has some sort of mental or physical disability, IMO. Or someone whose first language isn’t English.
