Subject: TAN: Outing a bonehead From: bunnythor Reply-To: bunnySPAMthor@usBLOCKERwest.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.181.2.135 Looky, everybody! Look at what came in my mailbox. QUOTED MATERIAL BELOW -------------------------- From: Fake.e-mail.adres!@xs4all.nl To: bunnythor@uswest.net X-Authentication-Warning: www-xs4all3.xs4all.nl: nobody set sender to www@www.xs4all.nl using -f Subject: Terry Brooks rules you earth, pinhead! X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl X-Http-Remote-Host: [12.32.144.18] X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) X-Http-Referer: http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/anonimous_email/page1.html On April 7th, you wrote this about Terry Brooks: _MKfS:S!_? That. Book. Was. AWFUL! That had to be the one of the most hideous pieces of excrement I ever forced myself most of the way through! The main character is offered the way to this Magic Kingdom at the beginning of the book, right? He then spends the *entire first half* of the book _ruminating_ on whether to cut all ties and go to it. He then spends the next half of the trying to stop the Great Disaster by going from Magic Kingdom power block to Magic Kingdom power block, trying to rustle up some support. "Will you help me save the Kingdom?" "Who the fuck are you? Piss off!" Lather, Rinse, Repeat. This goes on without letup or *variation* until 10 pages from the end of the book. And you know what happens in the last 10 pages of the book? Do you? Neither do I. I couldn't stand another word of that book. I did not throw it across the room though. I threw it *away*. I dumped it in the trash so I would not accidentally be party to someone else being accidentally subjected to this non-skillful, anti-stylish mockery of writing. Terry Brooks makes Piers Anthony look like James fucking Joyce. --Thor What do you know? Prick. I doubt you'd have the balls say this to any fan of Brooks in person. It's amazing how rude people can be when they can hide behind their keyboard. When's the last time you had your ass beat? Not recently enough. Prick. The really sad thing is that while you thought the book was so terrible, you nearly finished it. What's wrong with you? Are you that daft? Have a nice life, asshole. ------------------------ QUOTED MATERIAL ENDS Now I just have a couple of observations 1) This is my first e-mail flame ever. I'm so proud. I feel like I belong at last. 2) Am I being trolled, or are there really people as stupid as "Fake.e-mail.adres!" on this planet. 3) If the latter, I am not surprised that they read Terry Brooks, or more probably, have Terry Brooks read to them, slowly. 4) Since I couldn't reply to you in e-mail, let me reply to you here, you anonymous fuck. Terry Brooks has written the vilest, most rotten piece of detritus that I have ever had the misfortune to drag my eyes across. This is my zealously held opinion, and part of the fundement of my entire belief structure--but I could be wrong. If you think I am, then refute my points listed above, preferably using occasional words of more than one syllable--that is, if you can bear to tear your hands away from their ritual explorations of your infected perineum so that you may once again defile cyberspace with the product of both your neurons colliding. 5) If I don't hear back from you here, I will assume that you became distracted, probably by the act of soiling yourself intentionally, and are now luxuriating in the dank, squishy warmth that you so treasure. The best to you and your family this holiday season, --Thor