tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4021919712097819759..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Nick Green: A great philosopher once wrote...Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-54550294920217191902013-08-04T09:29:49.205+01:002013-08-04T09:29:49.205+01:00Thanks, Susan & Lydia, for the good wishes.Thanks, Susan & Lydia, for the good wishes.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-80629698422389325282013-08-03T14:31:21.699+01:002013-08-03T14:31:21.699+01:00For some reason I've never felt the draw of ge...For some reason I've never felt the draw of gerbils. Love guinea pigs but for me it's rats all day long when it comes to perfect petsDan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-28712004512559373052013-08-03T12:25:59.256+01:002013-08-03T12:25:59.256+01:00'Shaman' you troll!
And Nick, I'm ve...'Shaman' you troll! <br /><br />And Nick, I'm very interested to know why you don't recommend gerbils as pets? We had gerbils. They ate each other. That would be my reason. I wonder if yours is the same or if there's some other horror the critters get up to. I recommend Guinea pigs every time.<br /><br />Keeping a spelling troll as a pet, now that would be even worse than Gerbils right? CallyPhillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481379296340077102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-78350049670109003242013-08-03T11:45:05.797+01:002013-08-03T11:45:05.797+01:00Not sure I've ever managed as much as a couple...Not sure I've ever managed as much as a couple of sentences in a comment box without my fingers tangling themselves in knots and I never could do spelling and grammar. Thank heavens for the red wiggly lines, I say. So, phsaw to all that and huzzah for Nick Green for admiring the Ghost World trilogy as much as I do. I think one mark of excellence in fiction is when a story is susceptible to different symbolic interpretations whilst still remaining itself. I read the Ghost Drum as a parable of corrupting power: Nick reads it as analagous to the writer's ife. It remains a v fine book<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-14917031939473402612013-08-03T10:33:49.978+01:002013-08-03T10:33:49.978+01:00Lee, good luck with your op. Nick has selflessly c...Lee, good luck with your op. Nick has selflessly chosen to use his blog post to hymn the well-deserved praises of Susan Price, and his reward is to be lambasted on grammar and spelling by someone who is unaware that 'extravert' is perfectly correct. 'I've have' is the only typo in the whole piece, so Anon's use of 'riddled' is itself inaccurate. This is the first comment of its kind I've seen on AE. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-84058942188169036922013-08-03T10:26:39.724+01:002013-08-03T10:26:39.724+01:00Good writing is entirely about schoolmarm correctn...Good writing is entirely about schoolmarm correctness in punctuation and spelling? - An interesting concept, which would rule out virtually every writer before about 1890. But thank you, Anon, for your input.<br />Lee - good luck for the operation, and may it be successful!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-70886595220065122802013-08-03T10:14:49.005+01:002013-08-03T10:14:49.005+01:00@Anon, FYI 'extravert' is a perfectly acce...@Anon, FYI 'extravert' is a perfectly acceptable variant spelling. And you must have better eyesight than I (likely since I'm facing yet another eye op soon), since I can't find your 'I've have'.<br /><br />Why are you posting anonymously? Of course, this does avoid embarrassment.<br /><br />(And any typos of my own are due to the fact that I can hardly read numbers and letters at the moment. It's called a macular hole.)Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-76890007870268684712013-08-03T09:53:29.046+01:002013-08-03T09:53:29.046+01:00Honestly, you'd probably find a bit more succe...Honestly, you'd probably find a bit more success if you could write a ~500 word post without several spelling/grammar mistakes riddling your lines. "Extravert"? "I've have"? My god. I would be embarrassed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com