Grammar-whoring

[icepixie]

So we're reading Red Mars for Bio in Sci-Fi at the moment. Love the story, really enjoy reading the book, but I have one question. How the hell did this book win a Nebula Award with so frickin' many comma splices?!

*beats head against wall*

Every page. Every single page, there's at least one. It's driving me up a damned wall.

Comments

[icepixie]

Would love to, but if I did, I would spend more time correcting the grammar than actually reading hte book, and since it's almost 600 pages and I barely have time to actually read it as it is...

*sigh*

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Heh. I can feel your frustration all the way over here. Kind of shakes your faith in the publishing world doesn't it? And blurs the line between fan fiction and real fiction. ::sigh::

Weren't you the one who used to print out fic and correct it in red? Or am I mistaken?

Amazing to think we had that much free time once upon a time.

[icepixie]

Heh. I can feel your frustration all the way over here.

Yep. *glares at book*

Kind of shakes your faith in the publishing world doesn't it?

Oh, I haven't had any faith in the publishing world since I was about twelve, when I realized that I could've done a better job of proofreading the ST books I was reading at the time than the editors did.

And yet I still want to work in publishing...

And blurs the line between fan fiction and real fiction. ::sigh::

Oh, God... There's a shocking amount of fanfic that's actually better than a good percentage of published fiction. So, so sad.

Weren't you the one who used to print out fic and correct it in red? Or am I mistaken?

I never went that far. I usually hit the back button if the grammatical errors got to be too much. ;)

Amazing to think we had that much free time once upon a time.

Isn't it, though? And then it all went to hell when we started high school--it did for me, anyway...

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Oh, God... There's a shocking amount of fanfic that's actually better than a good percentage of published fiction. So, so sad.

Amen! And it is very sad, because fanfic writers are ridiculed to the ends of the earth and some are more talented than all those 'famous' writers. ::rolls eyes::

All the really crappy fic probably doesn't help though, huh?

[icepixie]

Amen! And it is very sad, because fanfic writers are ridiculed to the ends of the earth and some are more talented than all those 'famous' writers. ::rolls eyes::

It's intensely annoying. I don't think it's really any more special and creative to create your own characters than it is to make your own story by studying characters already created; they just take different sets of skills.

All the really crappy fic probably doesn't help though, huh?

Yeeeeah. Tried reading JAG fic again a couple days ago. I'll never learn, will I?