Moon People
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - 7:20pm
This was posted in the picture thread, but it totally deserves its own thread.
Check out the reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale-M-Courtney/dp/1436372135/
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It looks like someone's been playing that game where one person writes a sentence on a piece of paper and folds it over so the next person can only see the last word, and it goes around the room...
Only it got stuck in a nerd corner near the end.
Awesome chapter title, by the way. Surely the first chapter of every book is the beginning of the end? Maybe we are underestimating Mr. Courtney.
EDIT: One of the reviews off the link starts off "This is a book. And Also its a Good book." He really found his audience.
Higgledy wrote:
Yonder wrote:
From Amazon:
Moon People by Dale M. Courtney (Paperback - Dec 5, 2008)
Moon People 2 by Dale M. Courtney (Paperback - Jan 21, 2009)
Look closely at those dates. Can we surmise that it took Mr. Courtney 7 weeks (assuming he didn't take Christmas off) to write the second book?
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Amoebic wrote:
Release date does not always mean writing date. Don't serial sci-fi writers (I'm thinking D+D, Eberron, etc.) frequently write a couple books at a time that get released pretty close to each other?
As far as the quality, I have to say it reads to me like something translated (badly) from German or something. Especially considering all the proper-noun capitalizations.
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I took this thread title as a prime directive. I've been too busy to read it.
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Every time I see one of these I remind myself of why I don't self-publish my own work. Oh MAN.
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I'm almost tempted to buy a copy just so I can say I've experienced such an exciting literary work.
Almost.
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Oh my, there's some more of it online:
http://www2.xlibris.com/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=49194&page=1
Unfortunately, the hilarity is tempered somewhat by the fact that Xlibris is a self-publishing house, so they'll print pretty much anything as long as the author can cover the costs.
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I did nothing to deserve this kind of entertainment. This can only be the product of describing the concept of a book to someone that has never seen one before.
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I saw this on another site somewhere (Digg maybe?) Moon people is taking the internet by storm! I better order my copy before it's sold out.
This guy is gonna make millions, maybe that was his plan all along?
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Maybe, but it's hard to base a long-term career on people buying your product ironically.
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Actually, the book seems to make more sense than Transformers 2.
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It makes much more sense if you imagine it being told to you by a six year-old.
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Reading it reminded me of free writing exercises. Of course I don't actually try to publish those.
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It's looking like most of the comments on that amazon page are plants, because the grammar is almost as bad as in the book. Either this guy created all these comments to rate his own book, or a bunch of people are doing it just to make fun of him.
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I think this excerpt might actually give Wordy a stroke.
Ya think?
Hypatian wrote:
The mooninites are totally going to kick his ass.
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It's a 76 page book, so if he wrote 1000 words a day, he could even take weekends off.
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Well, the problem is that the reviews are giving him 4-5 stars. If they were making fun of him, you'd think they'd be a lot lower.
"Very well, Nappa, catch it. Catch it with your teeth."
"Very well, Nappa, catch it. Catch it with your teeth."
You are assuming there is a shred of sincerity in them.
I refer you to this thread.
Hypatian wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out why he capitalized "single". Maybe there's a code hidden in the words somewhere.
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McChuck wrote:
That is what one of the archivist I work with thinks, that the changing capitalization is a Secret code.
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All good conspiracy theories need to provide a credible explanation for something that seems hard to believe. This theory meets that criterion and then some.
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Amoebic wrote:
1000 words filled mostly with "now", no doubt.
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This makes me wonder if the author is secretly Bill Cosby...
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Amoebic wrote:
Moon People is a book of huge scientific value that we're yet to fathom. Somehow mere fact of it's existence polarizes all known universe into two separate planes. Plane of stuff that does make sense and mystical Plane of Moon People.
Damn you, Moon People. Damn you! Now even my signature starts to make sense.