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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | TUS(h), way back when, I used to read a detective magazine called "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine." (That may not be the exact title; at least the "Ellery Queen" part is correct.) Every now and then you'd get a very well-known author contributing, but, for the most part, the writers read pretty much like a "B" movie screens. I was too young to realize the difference, then, but...your contribution at the beginning of this post reminds me why I eventually stopped buying it.
As for "Point, set, match," as far as I last knew, I belonged to a club made up of people who enjoyed playing the same brand of guitars for pretty much the same reasons. Others have elucidated the things that tend to divide us much more eloquently than I ever could; so, I think I'll just go commune with my guitars now.......
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Game, Set and Match, a good trilogy by Len Deighton.
Hook, Line and Sinker was the follow on trilogy.
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Beal, I hate to disagree, but, some just come here to disagree.
Crap, someone help me, I am becoming one of THEM! |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Beggin:
some just come here to disagree. No we don't. |
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| I didn't find it interesting enough to read and, as a civil barrister, I get to read some pretty boring stuff. Send me $500.00 on retainer and I'll read it. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
civil barrister How much do uncivil barristers charge?  |
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| Yeah, I was going to say "civil barrister or uncivil barrister depending who you talk to" but it would have went over .1 of an hour on the docket..lol
NB - it means that you practice civil litigation as opposed to criminal law or whatever. |
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| I tried writing about ten years ago. I knew the odds were long with respect to getting published but figured, why not?
So I came up with a mystery/paranormal story about a detective who solves cases via out of body experiences, outlined it and sat down to write.
Problem is, when you write, you're God. The universe your characters inhabit is one of your making, its physical laws operate at your whim and the people have histories you give them. It's a big responsibility, and a lot of damn work. This is before you even consider style, pacing and overall feel of the work.
After about five chapters I decided I'd rather spend my time reading good writing than contributing more bad, and shut it down.
If Usual Suspects did, in fact write the piece in the first post, I'd say it's pretty damn good, and just a glimpse of what he can actually do. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by darkbarguitar:
Ohhh, Ohhhhh, Ohhhhhhhhh, OOOOOVATION!!!
(damn, screamed out the wrong name at the wrong time again) Still probably better than calling her "Martin." |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Losov:
I tried writing about ten years ago. I knew the odds were long with respect to getting published but figured, why not?
So I came up with a mystery/paranormal story about a detective who solves cases via out of body experiences, outlined it and sat down to write.
Problem is, when you write, you're God. The universe your characters inhabit is one of your making, its physical laws operate at your whim and the people have histories you give them. It's a big responsibility, and a lot of damn work. This is before you even consider style, pacing and overall feel of the work.
After about five chapters I decided I'd rather spend my time reading good writing than contributing more bad, and shut it down.
If Usual Suspects did, in fact write the piece in the first post, I'd say it's pretty damn good, and just a glimpse of what he can actually do. I wondered a bit about that -- whether Usual actually wrote the thing. After all, only the last paragraph really resembles anything he's ever contributed before -- but I figured I'd take the high road and give him the benefit of the doubt. |
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Location: on the web | Typical critics, can't do it themselves but feel free to question the ability of those who can. I threw that together yesterday morning on my coffee break.
Nice to see a few literate folks amongst the rest of the Neandertals here. The style was a deliberate mash-up of Hammett, Bulwer-Lytton, Bronte, and a dash of Roald Dahl for spice (the stuff he wrote for adults, not his kiddie dreck - look up "Switch Bitch").
I may just flesh that story out a bit and send it to The New Yorker - that's a magazine where the pictures-to-words ratio is the opposite of People, one with which you folks are more intimately familiar. If accepted it'd be my fourth fiction published by them. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I would give him the benefit of the doubt....you never know about people. I myself have a degree from a fine college of journalism, my specialty being feature stories. I suppose if I WANTED to, I could probably come up with some reasonable prose to entertain some of you. But I prefer my usual mindless drivel....it's much easier. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I enjoy the turn of a good phrase as much as a good chord progression.
I have "The Lord of the Rings", on CD... unabridged. All 58 hours of it. I probably go through it twice a year. It's read by a very proper Englishman who really knows how r-r-r-oll his Rs when needed.
"Out of the wreck rose the Black Rider..." |
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Location: Vernon CT | I thought this was suppose to be a forum for Ovation guitar fans! Some of you Literary "bores"
are pissing me off! If you want to talk/write in big f**king words most of us can't understand go here!
http://www.makeliterature.com/forums/
Start talking Ovations!
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by The Usual Suspects:
Typical critics, can't do it themselves but feel free to question the ability of those who can. I threw that together yesterday morning on my coffee break.
Nice to see a few literate folks amongst the rest of the Neandertals here. The style was a deliberate mash-up of Hammett, Bulwer-Lytton, Bronte, and a dash of Roald Dahl for spice (the stuff he wrote for adults, not his kiddie dreck - look up "Switch Bitch").
I may just flesh that story out a bit and send it to The New Yorker - that's a magazine where the pictures-to-words ratio is the opposite of People, one with which you folks are more intimately familiar. If accepted it'd be my fourth fiction published by them. But you still haven't answered the question. You obviously have some functioning gray matter, but your other posts are typically pointless and moronic. Why the disguise? I mean, this is a guitar form, fer cryin' out loud! I don't think "producing great literature" appears anywhere in the forum charter.
So, again, why all the OTHER moronic posts? |
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| Originally posted by The Usual Suspects:
Typical critics, can't do it themselves but feel free to question the ability of those who can. Of course. Everyone is a critic - of literature, of film, of food, of architecture, of music - by what we choose to buy and what we choose to ignore.
Post some of your guitar playing. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I think we all have that "crazy uncle" that you worry about come time for the Thanksgiving dinner gathering. But when it's all said and done, I think we'd say that life is more interesting with ol' Uncle George than it would be without him.
We are fortunate enough here to have a couple crazy uncles.
Personally, I'm grateful. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I think we all have that "crazy uncle" that you worry about come time for the Thanksgiving dinner gathering. But when it's all said and done, I think we'd say that life in more interesting with ol' Uncle George than it would be without him.
We are fortunate enough here to have a couple crazy uncles.
Personally, I'm grateful. Nicely said, Slip!
I DO admit, however, to some frustration, in that TUS plainly COULD contribute something substantive. I risk committing some gratuitous flattery for TUS here, but it seems a bit like having Tiger Woods show up to your amateur golf tournament and just toss insults at the participants. Yeah, he showed up, but so what? No one was the better for it -- including Tiger. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Losov:
Originally posted by The Usual Suspects:
Typical critics, can't do it themselves but feel free to question the ability of those who can. Of course. Everyone is a critic - of literature, of film, of food, of architecture, of music - by what we choose to buy and what we choose to ignore.
Post some of your guitar playing. |
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| Originally posted by AlanM:
it seems a bit like having Tiger Woods show up to your amateur golf tournament and just toss insults at the participants. Not exactly. If Tiger were to show up at your softball game and shout insults because he's a good golfer, that would be closer. I still invite TUS to post his guitar playing. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Post some of your guitar playing .
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Be careful what you ask for.
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Besides.... that would be like asking Clark Kent to do that neat heat vision trick. |
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| Originally posted by Slipkid:
Post some of your guitar playing .
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Be careful what you ask for. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Losov:
Originally posted by AlanM:
it seems a bit like having Tiger Woods show up to your amateur golf tournament and just toss insults at the participants. Not exactly. If Tiger were to show up at your softball game and shout insults because he's a good golfer, that would be closer. I still invite TUS to post his guitar playing.
BT said it well above also. As fun as the story was to read, after having read it, none of us was the better, or more knowledgeable, or informed, or a better guitarist, or had any tips or tricks for guitar playing.
The ONE teeny, tiny hint of a link to the ACTUAL point of this forum is a conclusion that the Martin D28 might be a nice guitar. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Be careful what you ask for..this forum may end up being just a bunch of "crazy uncles", throwing insults at every post or at best inane, worthless comments, running off NEW members before they catch the "flavor" here, etc.
I know that I am just a "dumbass from the South" that may not be privy to "the uncles" true identity. I would like to think that it's not one of the many members here that I have met personally, but at last, I have my doubts. If you want the forum to be less than it is, because of this BS, than I would highly encourage your uncles.
Seems to me that there was a fight for unity a short while ago. It divided in the beginning, but in the end, taught quite a few members a valuable lesson, that we are stronger as ONE group UNITED. It was an excellent lesson for a lot us.
I believe that it's time to lockup or kill off "the uncles" before we all become "uncles".
IMO, it would be a tragedy. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by AlanM:
I DO admit, however, to some frustration, in that TUS plainly COULD contribute something substantive. Perhaps he already has.... already does... and will continue to so.
Or, perhaps he is just another funny name on a long list trolls we have seen here over the many, many years.
Personally,I don't know who these guys are. Just when I think I got it figured out, I find that I don't.
I might not even know them. |
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