Game Show Monday

[bironic]

*TV announcer voice*

Live, from North Carolina -- it's time for another round of "Badfic Or Published Novel?"

I had never realized that the experience of being fucked would be so pleasurable that it might make me come.

Place your bets, folks!

Comments

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Hahahahah. I will take "Missing The Point" for $500, Alex. (I know, wrong game show, but still!)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It is just... not the ending I thought the sentence was headed for.

[lilly-the-kid.livejournal.com]

*backs away slowly*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I think that is the healthiest response!

[lilly-the-kid.livejournal.com]

That maybe... and yet I'm curious...
:)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Well, synn is still somehow and somewhy powering through it, so if there are any more outstanding lines, I'll be sure to share.

[lilly-the-kid.livejournal.com]

Awesome/terrifying!!!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

That's ... very sad. On multiple levels.

I want to say it's Badfic, but since you provided a choice, I'm terribly afraid the actual answer is Published Novel.

Eeek!

[theninth.livejournal.com]

My reasoning, too. Especially since that wouldn't really be a shock to see in badfic.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah; at least the grammar's good. *facepalm*

[theninth.livejournal.com]

That's ... better than you can hope for in some published books. Especially with print-on-demand on the rise. I read a book recently where someone "giggled" a box to try to determine what was in it. The fact that it was self-published made me feel a little bit better. Then worse again when I found out the author used to be a reporter for a newspaper.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeez. This one isn't self-published, I don't think. Although according to synn, there was just a line about people playing "badmitten." (Bad mitten! Bad! No yarn for you!)

[theninth.livejournal.com]

My mom read a published mystery novel about 25 years ago where a woman had been beaten to the point where there were "whelps" on her arms.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Eugh! Violence-induced parthenogenesis!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've seen that mistake. Also, it really seems that goofs like "dropping the reigns" and "he was payed for his work" have become increasingly common.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing its/it's confusion a lot more recently -- in newspapers, on TV captions, in general usage -- and it's killing me. I will need to seek professional help if it becomes "acceptable usage."

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

My blood pressure raises rises whenever I see "alright." Please, no.

(edited for verb fail @_@ )

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the game title sort of gives it away. Still - to think that it would be so easy to publish something even moderately less crappy...

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

That has to be a Published Novel. Even badfic authors know that the point of sex is orgasm. *g*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ha. And yet, this was erotica.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I fear for the state of literature. *weeps*

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Even though it's a published novel, it's still badfic!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Is the narrator a victim of sexual abuse? That's about the only thing I could think of where that sentence might make some sort of sense.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no. Wouldn't have made fun of it if so.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Oh, duh. Of course you wouldn't. I was just trying to make it make sense in my own mind and... sorry for accidentally accusing you of insensitivity and denseness : (

[bironic.livejournal.com]

No, no - sorry, a mistranslation of tone there. More of "yeah... thought something similar, and that would have excused it, but there is no excuse!"

*hug*

[http://users.livejournal.com/xenakis_/]

Totally a Pro Novel. *nodnodnod*

On a completely different subject, Roga said you should see this (http://xenakis.dreamwidth.org/38557.html). She did not say why :P

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

This... possibly tells me more about the author than I really wanted to know XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

There were also *facepalm*-worthy lines about being gay and being a parent not going together (despite this being gay erotica), and ... stuff I've blocked from memory already. A real winner. And on Amazon, apparently people rated it 4-5 stars!

[briar_pipe]

People buy this stuff? As in, pay actual money?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

At least that one was only $2.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I'm going with Published Novel simply because of how wretched twilight is.


What is "Fuck you, Alex"? ;)

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! I know!

Definitely published novel. Because a badfic would have the exact same line, but "come" would be spelled C-U-M. :)

My favourite line from a recently published book: "Oh no! We've never had two simultaneous signals AT THE SAME TIME!"

*facepalm*