The sarcasm was so obvious it was practically in a flashing neon sign. If you didn’t get it you need to work on your reading comprehension.
And Crichton is an idiot dickhead. Of course Bush likes him.
Still hate the goddam things! Smilies are just sooooo AOL.
As an example this.
Yup.
Satire is similar to irony but it does not rust.
Be nice! I’m American, and I could see the facetiousness dripping off of those pixels.
I’m Canadian, with a full brain, and the sarcasm made me chuckle. I take Crowley’s point as being “Crichton is such a over-reacting drama-queen that it wasn’t enough to make a character with my name a small-dicked child rapist, he felt compelled to add in a gratuitous shot at the pharmaceutical industry, just to be sure.”
It’s certainly a better option than getting angry at Crichton, though if I were Crowley, I’d take the opportunity whenever possible in the near future to dispel any notion of Crichton as a “hard” science fiction writer, pointing out factual errors in his works and all.
Well, now I just feel like i’ve let the side down. I’ll turn in my Brit card immediately.
Damn you and your universal health care.
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JohnT, I think the point in this case was to make a big show of NOT letting Crichton offend him, which was obviously what the latter set out to do.
I think I’ll have to agree that this is petty of Crichton, though of course it is tradittional and not without precedent. Dante, Swift and many others villify their enemies in print. Recently, somebody paid Nelson Demille to have their name the name of a villain in his latest novel.
Crowley strikes me as a bit of smegma too. Would anybody have noticed or made the connection if Crowley wasn’t boasting/whining about being insulted in print?
These literati deserve each other.
Personally, I consider myself above this kind of thing. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go back to composing my latest magnum opus wherein a former Nazi death camp guard travels to the arctic after WWII where he clubs baby seals, rapes eskimos and invents the HIV virus. It should be a good read as the part of the horror is watching this character, Herr Von Erucidator precede down the road to madness as he succumbs to Syphillis.
Does the plot include the mythical monster that swallows Greek seamen?
Watch out! Make way! Outlandish and inexplicable “Americans don’t understand irony” meme coming through.
No, but fortunately the handsome Scylvio pursues the the Syphilitic German to the South poll accompanied by his beautiful assistent Fran Bolter, Gus Limbo, B. Richter, and Slow Dan, and they shoot it out with the Nazi bastard and his cohorts, Ben Store and Red Skull Fury.
It’s quite exciting but in the end, the bad guys simply can’t overcome the awesome might of Scylvio’s group, code-named F.O.X.
Steven King on Nyquil.
How in the hell did this get into the pit?
I start reading about how a best-selling author retaliates against a reporter by using a similar-sounding name in a book, I get interested, follow all the links, and all of a sudden y’all are responding to each other in a pit thread, and I lose interest.
Q
sigh
I went ahead and removed the link from your post, Caridwen. I don’t have any problem with the suggestion, but I’d rather people went there on their own rather than coming from here. This is not in any way a rebuke, just me being cautious.
Well, well, well-guess who made Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” tonight?
Chrichton’s been a petty bitch for some time already. He’s a Harvard grad, and you can always tell when a character is meant to be villain because he’ll mention that they went to Yale. That is, if their villain-hood hasn’t already been telegraphed from a mile away.