PLANET OF THE OWLS is lowbrow and lofty, earthy and spiritual, crass and classy. I've no doubt that in this novel, Mike
has found his voice and is writing exactly what he means to say.
3/5 bukkakewyrms.
Feo Amante review of Planet of the Owls
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Posts: 7673 (11/26/08 23:38:26) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Kudos to them for writing a real review, not a rehash of ancient flame wars.
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Posts: 2496 (11/28/08 00:17:07) Shocklineraholic |
it's important to note that a) the review's not totally negative, doesn't mention grammar/spelling errors and is quite praising of the writing and
b) has live links to both Bukkakeworld and Planet of the Owls available on Amazon (it's available all over the place).
Sweet marketing (now I'll go kill myself as Mr Hicks encouraged). |
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Posts: 656 (11/28/08 07:57:13) Shockliner |
"...many with the ability to write well fail at the second half of the problem, the ability to write well + about something interesting." Take the reviewer, for example...
(No, seriously, how can you have the ability to write well, and fail to have the ability to write well... at the same time?) |
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Posts: 657 (11/28/08 08:02:19) Shockliner |
Mike... do birds really rape old ladies in this book... or is the reviewer just on crack...? Because, I mean, birds don't have penises... so, everything else aside, how would that even work? |
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Posts: 2497 (11/28/08 08:25:48) Shocklineraholic |
Yes, in this work of fiction, angels have penises. An old lady is ravaged in the book by angels. I think, in answer to your question, the general mechanism of
the exchange is the old (bag) lady lifts up her dirty old coat and the magpies pour into her unholiness. Any other questions, my dear?
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Posts: 658 (11/28/08 08:33:19) Shockliner |
No, no, I guess that'll do fine, thank you.
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Posts: 7675 (11/28/08 09:12:08) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
...by failing to write about something interesting? That is how the sentence ends, right? |
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Posts: 2498 (11/28/08 13:22:43) Shocklineraholic |
you guys are the cuttingest critics out there - that's why I continue to come back here - it's a true grounding.
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Posts: 3163 (11/28/08 13:29:46) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Because, I mean, birds don't have penises... Larger birds do, actually, ducks and swans and ostriches and the like. |
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Posts: 659 (11/28/08 14:23:31) Shockliner |
RN Lee wrote: I've never heard that before. Interesting. I'll have to go look that up. |
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Posts: 660 (11/28/08 14:27:15) Shockliner |
RN Lee wrote: Well, look at that: 3% of bird species have a phallus: the common urogenital arrangement for both males and females is the cloaca, through which all elimination and reproduction (via juxtaposed cloacas) occurs, but certain bird species, particularly ratites, screamers, waterfowl, and cracids (a family of arboreal galliformes) exhibit a phallus in the male. (wikipedia.) THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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Posts: 3135 (11/28/08 14:41:20) Keeper of Tootsie Pops |
VeryUnseemly wrote:Or flip one over and look down. You could lift it over your head and look up, but it could get messy. j/k 
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Posts: 661 (11/28/08 14:45:17) Shockliner |
JerrodBalzer wrote:Well, my budgies like to wank sometimes, but I've not yet to see any sign of penises... so... |
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Posts: 7676 (11/28/08 15:10:26) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
They called him "Big Bird" for a reason. Just ask Mr. Snuffleupagus.
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Posts: 3165 (11/28/08 15:24:50) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
VeryUnseemly wrote: Yeah, it's not all that many species, against the whole, but there are a few. Some duck has like the longest proportional penis of all - a picture went around online a few years back of a particularly lengthy specimen. |
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Posts: 3138 (11/28/08 15:41:07) Keeper of Tootsie Pops |
That's just Daffy.
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Posts: 1271 (11/28/08 15:44:25) Master Shockliner |
Was it Howard the Duck?
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Posts: 2499 (11/29/08 01:34:45) Shocklineraholic |
before I kill myself, one more marketing spiel, "It's not whether the birds can rape a woman but how the angels can rape a man."
just before we all tumble into the jingoistic Janrae-ism of 'critiquing a book without reading it'. Well, then she's fucking psychic, Mike. We all know that, as we know that V.U. isn't a CIA_blog_operative in Bangalore, India.
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Posts: 662 (11/29/08 08:16:52) Shockliner |
RN Lee wrote: I think I saw the pic you're talking about. It was like, twice as long as the duck's body... I'm not really sure how that he and Mrs. Duck got that to work out... |
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Posts: 2500 (11/30/08 06:20:30) Shocklineraholic |
one of the big things I've been wanting to reveal about Planet of the Owls Su-Ki Chin character (it's probably too vague in the book) is that she's DEAD d.e.a.d. at the start of her second chapter - where she escapes her egg. Only a DEATH OF EARTH ANGEL can start from a dead girl, in fact a dead planet. I digress...
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