On being meh, and the Lipton Questionaire

[lagilman]

Alas, alack, Locus was not impressed with Bring it On. I believe the overhelming tone was "meh."

*pauses to reflect on that*

Ah well. Book's written, best I could write at the time. Moving on.

Because I happened to watch "In The Actor's Studio" tonight, the beloved, oft-taken "Lipton Questionaire." Have at it!

What is your favorite word?
What is your least favorite word?
What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
What turns you off?
What is your favorite curse word?
What sound or noise do you love?
What sound or noise do you hate?
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
What profession would you not like to do?
If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?




What is your favorite word? 'wow.'
What is your least favorite word? 'oversensitive.'
What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? affection.
What turns you off? overuse of sarcasm.
What is your favorite curse word? m*therf*cker.
What sound or noise do you love? thunder.
What sound or noise do you hate? sirens.
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? photographer. or salsa dancer.
What profession would you not like to do? actor.
If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? "oh, thank Me, I was worried you wouldn't get here."

Comments

[ferragus.livejournal.com]

heh!

Now I have to post my own answers :)

[shadowfay.livejournal.com]

Great answers. I still want to read Bring It On despite Locus. I just need to finish the 3 books for review first. :( The books are good so far, but I love your "Retrivers Series."

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

I change my mind about my answers to those questions every time I watch Actor's Studio - except the last one. That answer stays the same: "Welcome, you took your time getting here. Patrick's waiting for you."

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Bugger!!!

[lagilman]

ah well, I personally think that BiO ws a better book, structurally, than CtD, so it just goes to show that not only can you not please all of the people all the time, but that you're damn lucky if you please anyone even once....

[ramblin-phyl.livejournal.com]

Locus doesn't like me either and usually ignores me. So I ignore them.

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Exactly so. Also, there is a great divide between pleasing the General Reading Public, and the insiders of the spec fic community. I never realised the impact of being a bookseller on the issue, until recently. I'm guessing you experience some of the same responses as a former in-house editor.

[lagilman]

I know far too much about the busines of making sausage, as it were....


(and I knew going in that, as a romantic fantasy writer published by Harlequin, I was never going to get any 'respect' from certain portions of the spec fic insiders. I don't let it keep me from sleeping at night. Anyway, my short fic sold to Polyphony. I got cred!) ;-)

[lagilman]

awww...

hopefully, you will decide that the Locus reviewer was on crack.... *grin*

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Call me an idiot, call me naive, call me a hopeless Pollyanna, but I still struggle with the attitude in spec fic that has some subsets sneering at some others, for whatever reason. How hard is it to celebrate all subsets and successes? Who cares if they're not your personal cup of tea????

[(Anonymous)]

There have been reams written on this, and much virtual blood on the floor.

Leave it that the fan community is not representative of mass taste, and any major publisher that published specifically for fan taste would go belly up in a twinkling.

And there exist folks who live to look down thier nose at others, based on taste in fiction, or anything else they can find.

I believe what I like is good. This does not mean what anyone else likes is bad. Good and Bad are relative, not absolute.
______
Dennis

[lagilman]

Good and Bad are relative, not absolute.


and for some reason, my mind immediately demanded to see this as an Addams Family cartoon (original drawing, not the animated thingy! "Thing, meet your cousins: Good, and Bad.

[lagilman]

Wise decision. I haven't subscribed or read them regularly since I left Roc, and even then it was just to skim for anything of interest.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

Locus apparently didn't review Jack Chalker books even when his books were some of the best-selling in the field.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite word?
Don't know, don't have a consistent favorite word. Having "promote" and/or "foster" pinned to the cubicle wall years ago was so that I wouldn't forget those two words, which I used a lot in the writing I was doing as part of my workload (I worked on a lot of proposals).

What is your least favorite word?

It changes, but the candidates include "buzz" and if allow terms, "core competency" and the entire class of "one year anniversary, five year anniversary, [etc.]"


What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Novelty

What turns you off?

Sameness

What is your favorite curse word? m*therf*cker.

sh*t, or maybe f*ck -- it's a tossup. "You lying sack of sh*t" I must've repeated at least 100 times when that evil arse was giving his lying sack of sh*t address earlier tonight.

What sound or noise do you love?

thunder

What sound or noise do you hate?

fake drum sounds on CD

What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

photography, maybe

What profession would you not like to do?

accountant or mortician

If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

[no clue]

[ramblin-phyl.livejournal.com]

Charlie Brown claims he has no control over which books his reviews choose to read. He does, however, have control over which books are in the pile to choose from.

I've given up trying to figure them out.