Comments on: Umm, I don’t think so… http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/ What's hip, what's now, what's tomorrow in the romance genre world. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:26:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: willaful http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32343 willaful Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:46:07 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32343 Exactly! My best guess is that Palmer was thinking of posthumous and wrote premature instead. But who knows, really. Her books are always chock full of WTF moments. Part of their charm. :-) Exactly! My best guess is that Palmer was thinking of posthumous and wrote premature instead. But who knows, really. Her books are always chock full of WTF moments. Part of their charm. :-)

]]> By: FD http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32342 FD Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:35:49 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32342 Wait, what? But why? If she was premie, it moves her date of conception closer to her 'father's' date of death, and thus increases implausibility. *headscratching* I can forgive the occasional typo, it can happen to anybody. But I have a very limited tolerance for ungrammatical / clumsy phrasing when it occurs outside of dialogue. I've also come across a few books with howlers of the, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means," variety and they never fail to make me lose interest. Wait, what? But why? If she was premie, it moves her date of conception closer to her ‘father’s’ date of death, and thus increases implausibility. *headscratching*

I can forgive the occasional typo, it can happen to anybody. But I have a very limited tolerance for ungrammatical / clumsy phrasing when it occurs outside of dialogue. I’ve also come across a few books with howlers of the, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means,” variety and they never fail to make me lose interest.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32320 Elizabeth Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:43:47 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32320 "Still, the Lawrece of Arabia thing cracked me up. AH, when Peter O’Toole was still handsome." Noel Coward said that O'Toole was so pretty in the role they could have called it 'Florence of Arabia'. :smile: “Still, the Lawrece of Arabia thing cracked me up. AH, when Peter O’Toole was still handsome.”

Noel Coward said that O’Toole was so pretty in the role they could have called it ‘Florence of Arabia’. :smile:

]]> By: willaful http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32310 willaful Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:30:05 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32310 I'm collecting these in Diana Palmer books. I don't think there's been one by her yet where there wasn't at least one thing that made me start sputtering "wha...? wha...?" My favorite so far is the woman who was born 7 months after her supposed father died, so as part of the pretense they claimed she was premature. I’m collecting these in Diana Palmer books. I don’t think there’s been one by her yet where there wasn’t at least one thing that made me start sputtering “wha…? wha…?” My favorite so far is the woman who was born 7 months after her supposed father died, so as part of the pretense they claimed she was premature.

]]> By: One Lady's Trash http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32309 One Lady's Trash Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:22:37 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32309 I have a big problem with lathed being mistakenly used in novels too. Ouch. I also have an issue is the idea of being "laved" by someone's tongue (which I hope is what the really author means), but that's a different matter. Whenever I come across lathed in a perfectly good sex scene, it always snaps me right back to reality. Apparently bad editing is a horrible turn-off. Haven't run into it recently, but I know it's lurking in one of the books in my to be read pile right now... I have a big problem with lathed being mistakenly used in novels too. Ouch. I also have an issue is the idea of being “laved” by someone’s tongue (which I hope is what the really author means), but that’s a different matter. Whenever I come across lathed in a perfectly good sex scene, it always snaps me right back to reality. Apparently bad editing is a horrible turn-off.

Haven’t run into it recently, but I know it’s lurking in one of the books in my to be read pile right now…

]]> By: chanel19 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32305 chanel19 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:45:59 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32305 Wait... Peter O'Toole and his blue eyes can't pass for an Arab??? :roll: Wait… Peter O’Toole and his blue eyes can’t pass for an Arab??? :roll:

]]> By: Isabel Roman http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32304 Isabel Roman Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:00:54 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32304 "Just yesterday I had to dump a book because the heroine thought the hero, an Arab man, looked like Lawrence of Arabia. Who of course, was a white, British man." Ha! I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but that would've annoyed me, too for the same reason! :evil: In reading everyone's responses, I realized I CAN be more tolerating of certain things I hadn't thought of this morning when I first posted. But I am a firm believer in a good outline for these descriptions/timelines. Not that I haven't made them, and I did accidentally change a character's name once in a short story (Raven to Rachel) but I know that and am deeply embarrassed by it. I have a reason (hospitalization, on really great pain meds afterwards, and my godchild's name is Rachel and she was visiting me when I worked on that story) but it doesn’t help the reader. Still, the Lawrece of Arabia thing cracked me up. AH, when Peter O'Toole was still handsome. “Just yesterday I had to dump a book because the heroine thought the hero, an Arab man, looked like Lawrence of Arabia. Who of course, was a white, British man.”

Ha! I’m sorry, Elizabeth, but that would’ve annoyed me, too for the same reason! :evil:

In reading everyone’s responses, I realized I CAN be more tolerating of certain things I hadn’t thought of this morning when I first posted. But I am a firm believer in a good outline for these descriptions/timelines. Not that I haven’t made them, and I did accidentally change a character’s name once in a short story (Raven to Rachel) but I know that and am deeply embarrassed by it. I have a reason (hospitalization, on really great pain meds afterwards, and my godchild’s name is Rachel and she was visiting me when I worked on that story) but it doesn’t help the reader.

Still, the Lawrece of Arabia thing cracked me up. AH, when Peter O’Toole was still handsome.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32303 Elizabeth Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:48:02 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32303 A factual error will annoy me more than a "wait, that house was a bungalow and now it's got an attic?" type of error. Hell, we've all done that. I once had a house start a story in Finchley and magically move to Chiswick. But factual ones will do it every time and play on my mind until I just can't read it any more. Just yesterday I had to dump a book because the heroine thought the hero, an Arab man, looked like Lawrence of Arabia. Who of course, was a white, British man. Now when reading an ordinary girl + Arab Sheikh story I don't expect to go all that deeply into the history, culture and social issues of the Middle East. But if the author didn't even get as far as one of the most famous movies ever set in that region when it comes to research, then I know that I won't be able to take anything else in the book remotely seriously. The book was already sort of boring anyway, so that gave me an excuse to toss it at the wall! A factual error will annoy me more than a “wait, that house was a bungalow and now it’s got an attic?” type of error. Hell, we’ve all done that. I once had a house start a story in Finchley and magically move to Chiswick. But factual ones will do it every time and play on my mind until I just can’t read it any more.

Just yesterday I had to dump a book because the heroine thought the hero, an Arab man, looked like Lawrence of Arabia. Who of course, was a white, British man.

Now when reading an ordinary girl + Arab Sheikh story I don’t expect to go all that deeply into the history, culture and social issues of the Middle East. But if the author didn’t even get as far as one of the most famous movies ever set in that region when it comes to research, then I know that I won’t be able to take anything else in the book remotely seriously.

The book was already sort of boring anyway, so that gave me an excuse to toss it at the wall!

]]> By: Susan Kelley http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32302 Susan Kelley Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:37:39 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32302 Mmm. I'm pretty forgiving of mistakes in spelling that get by the proof reading, but there are things that pull me out of the story too. I grew up on a farm and often there are some glaring misconceptions about that life. When you're in a barn filled with cows it doesn't smell like fresh alfalfa. It smells like cow dung. Oh, and if we're keeping track, 4 kids here and no stretch marks. Not everyone gets those. Mmm. I’m pretty forgiving of mistakes in spelling that get by the proof reading, but there are things that pull me out of the story too. I grew up on a farm and often there are some glaring misconceptions about that life. When you’re in a barn filled with cows it doesn’t smell like fresh alfalfa. It smells like cow dung.
Oh, and if we’re keeping track, 4 kids here and no stretch marks. Not everyone gets those.

]]> By: Kacie http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/umm-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-32301 Kacie Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:29:19 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=2547#comment-32301 Kimber An: two kids, not a single stretch mark in sight. My mom had six, and she doesn't have any, either. It's rare, I know, but not an unheard of phenomenon... ;) Kimber An: two kids, not a single stretch mark in sight. My mom had six, and she doesn’t have any, either. It’s rare, I know, but not an unheard of phenomenon… ;)

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