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Authors you want to drop-kick.

SFG75

SFG75

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The title is pretty self-explanatory. Here's my list and reasons.

-Ann Coulter; for being obnoxious

-Proust; for being obtuse

-H.P. Lovecraft; for being weird

-Stephen Coontz; Tom Clancy wanna-be

-Oprah; published a few books, but I'd drop-kick her due to the whole Franzen thing and for having such a mesmerizing effect on the entire U.S. population.

-Paul Johnson; for being Paul Johnson


What author makes you want to drop-kick them?:D
 
Tony Parsons – for being quite simply shite and perpetuating lad-lit.

JK Rowling – “oh, don’t worry kids. If your life sucks you can just go and be a wizard.”

Walter Benjamin – for having been a spoilt, miserable German toss.

Donna Tartt – for not trying hard enough through those ten long years.

Dave Eggers – for THAT title.

Mikhail Bahktin – for being completely unfathomable.

Andy McNab - for not getting shot when he was 'in' the SAS. Bastard.
 
Andy McNab - for not getting shot when he was 'in' the SAS. Bastard.
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Not only that, they taught him to read and write when he was in there - they've a lot to answer for!
 
SFG75 said:
What author makes you want to drop-kick them?:D
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:p i've had to look "kick" up in my dictionary , so I suppose i can say I'd like to "drop-kick" Mark Fischer, because he's self centred and absolutely bigheaded.
 
SFG75 said:
The title is pretty self-explanatory. Here's my list and reasons.

-Ann Coulter; for being obnoxious

-Proust; for being obtuse

-H.P. Lovecraft; for being weird

-Stephen Coontz; Tom Clancy wanna-be

-Oprah; published a few books, but I'd drop-kick her due to the whole Franzen thing and for having such a mesmerizing effect on the entire U.S. population.

-Paul Johnson; for being Paul Johnson


What author makes you want to drop-kick them?:D
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You ought to go to the Therapy thread SFG. You have a lot of pent up anger. There's guy over there who needs a kick in the pants.

I think people who don't articulate their fricatives should be beaten with a hose. But authors deserve better than that, just for putting up with bad readers.
 
If you use Firefox, and everyone should be, you can install the extension 'dict'. With Dict installed all you have to do is select the word with the cursor, right-click, define and a popup appears with the definition. I dunno about Windows but there is also a dictionary applet you can install in your Gnome toolbar that will give you definitions of any word you paste into it.
 
Fa! Failing to articulate ones fricatives may be a whole 'nother ball of wax, something not to be found in any dictionery.


I can't personally think of anybody I'd like to dropkick right now, but I do appear to have come down with a rather shameful case of shadenfreude (non-forum related.)

Is there a cure?

:eek:
 
ions said:
If you use Firefox, and everyone should be, you can install the extension 'dict'. With Dict installed all you have to do is select the word with the cursor, right-click, define and a popup appears with the definition.
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OMG! This is brilliant! I also found Stumbleupon - fantastic! And yes - Firefox should be made compulsory.
 
abecedarian said:
um, what's Firefox? :confused:
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It's a web browser (like Internet Explorer).

I switched last year and really like it - particularly the tabs.

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I think the authours I would particularly like to drop-kick are;

Tom Clancy- This is possibly because his books are unnecessarly rude, I find his books repetitive or I just dont like him.

Colin Forbes- For writing the stone leopard.

Because he is my favourite authour, I am not going to write Raymond E Feist but I would like to drop-Kick him for writing The Conclave Of Shadows series.
 
Tom Clancy- This is possibly because his books are unnecessarly rude, I find his books repetitive or I just dont like him.
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I find that reading Clancy is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, he paints a great picture of a given scene. He can describe a character sitting in an M1 Abrams tank so thoroughly that you feel as if you yourself are at the helm. He does this without a plodding slowing of the books flow that plagues other writers of his genre. On the otherhand, he does have a strain of southern-American jingoism(would that be the right description?) where the world is painted white and black with Jack Ryan facing the evil empire.:rolleyes: I do plan on reading Debt of Honor some time soon.
 
Too bad Firefox is so damn vulnerable to viruses and outside attacks.

Author, drop-kick: Irvine Welsh, for making that accent so damn impenetrable.
 
Martin said:
Too bad Firefox is so damn vulnerable to viruses and outside attacks.

Author, drop-kick: Irvine Welsh, for making that accent so damn impenetrable.
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Heh, First of all get something more up to date. At almost a month old that voraciously innaccurate article as been dismissed hundreds of times over. Second comparing the level of vulnerabilities by their level of threat. IE has more critical flaws than a Dan Brown book. Nevermind that Symantic might have ulterior motives for wanting people to use a piece of software that's holier than bread.
 
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