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Nov. 28th, 2006 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseDear Eric Flint.
While I greatly appreciate the fact that you helped Baen put out all of the James Schmitz T & T stories in book form, thus freeing me up from having to stalk down old paperbacks with really cheesy titles, you SUCK.
You edited out my favorite ever part in the first story, the ebook. I'm sure you're an excellent editor and all that, but that was truly unnecessary, particularly on a story that has already existed with that line in it for, oh, 36 years before you mangled it. See, the problem with editing is that if I catch you doing it one place, I'm going to wonder through the whole rest of the book what else you took out that I didn't know was there. And I shouldn't be reading a book, wondering what the editor did to it. You're supposed to be invisible! And you're not. You're reminding me that you're real and biased and visible, and that's bad. BAD! If it was good enough for John Campbell, it's good enough for me.
Thus, I hate you, and I am going to stop making excuses for the existence of the Wizard of Karres. It will just serve as more proof of bad things. And I better not catch you having deleted the internet reference wikipedia assures me is in a story, or there will be a shin-kicking.
There was no hot water this morning. I hate cold showers even in the middle of summer, but on a day when I woke up repeatedly all night because I was cold (I shouldn't have been, it's not like it's *really* cold, but I was wearing summer pajamas and there was no heat), a cold shower is just cruel and unusual, and thus, I hate. (And then on the walk in this morning, I discovered someone had edited the book I was reading and badly, so the above letter *may* have been influenced by such things, but really, it still sucks no matter how good my day might have been before that.)
Anyways, having finished Zodiac last night, at least I found the first of the collected series (Telzey Amberdon) to read now--I have the other two books, but I'd thought I'd lost this one and was going to have to read it in the small, older collections that I luckily also own, but just for this book.
"How I met your mother" was pretty good last night, but I really think "The Class" is just getting better and better--the writing and jokes are better, the chemistry between the actors is better, and it was lovely last night.
While I greatly appreciate the fact that you helped Baen put out all of the James Schmitz T & T stories in book form, thus freeing me up from having to stalk down old paperbacks with really cheesy titles, you SUCK.
You edited out my favorite ever part in the first story, the ebook. I'm sure you're an excellent editor and all that, but that was truly unnecessary, particularly on a story that has already existed with that line in it for, oh, 36 years before you mangled it. See, the problem with editing is that if I catch you doing it one place, I'm going to wonder through the whole rest of the book what else you took out that I didn't know was there. And I shouldn't be reading a book, wondering what the editor did to it. You're supposed to be invisible! And you're not. You're reminding me that you're real and biased and visible, and that's bad. BAD! If it was good enough for John Campbell, it's good enough for me.
Thus, I hate you, and I am going to stop making excuses for the existence of the Wizard of Karres. It will just serve as more proof of bad things. And I better not catch you having deleted the internet reference wikipedia assures me is in a story, or there will be a shin-kicking.
There was no hot water this morning. I hate cold showers even in the middle of summer, but on a day when I woke up repeatedly all night because I was cold (I shouldn't have been, it's not like it's *really* cold, but I was wearing summer pajamas and there was no heat), a cold shower is just cruel and unusual, and thus, I hate. (And then on the walk in this morning, I discovered someone had edited the book I was reading and badly, so the above letter *may* have been influenced by such things, but really, it still sucks no matter how good my day might have been before that.)
Anyways, having finished Zodiac last night, at least I found the first of the collected series (Telzey Amberdon) to read now--I have the other two books, but I'd thought I'd lost this one and was going to have to read it in the small, older collections that I luckily also own, but just for this book.
"How I met your mother" was pretty good last night, but I really think "The Class" is just getting better and better--the writing and jokes are better, the chemistry between the actors is better, and it was lovely last night.
