Words Fail Me (#26924 in a series of millions)

[major_clanger]

The latest 'you might like to buy this' mail from Amazon suggested that I might like War of the Worlds: A Modern Version of the Classic Novel .

Pardon?

A bit of googling led me here. Make sure you aren't drinking (or cover your keyboard), follow that link, then feel free to vent your spleen in the comments.

Comments

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Good grief!

[autopope.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAGHH!!!!!

Teh stupid, it burns!

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

OMFG, this is sacrilege. And I can't remember the last time I saw a promotion that almost admits the book itself is rubbish.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Bleeding hell.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

It wasn't immediately obvious who the 'author' of this gem is - one Robert Reginald, which appears to be the pseudonym of Michael Burgess, a librarian at CSUSB.

I suspect (or at least hope) that it's a deliberate stinker along the lines of Atlanta Nights.

I'm quite looking forward to it...

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

No one would have believed, in the first years of the twenty-first century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; because, as recent space exploration has shown, there's no such things as Martians.

...
Well, our book appears to have finished a little earlier than expected, so here's some music.
Dum de dum de dum de dum, dum de dum de dum dum (continues for 200 pages).


Mind you, I actually had to stop reading "The First Men In The Moon" becuase the science was so, so wrong I couldn't suspend my disbelief. Oh dear, I'm the target audience...

Re: I'm quite looking forward to it...

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't the music go "dum dum duuuum, dum dum duuum"?

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I'm just off to do a revised version of Space: 1999, since we all know that the moon wasn't actually blasted out of earth's orbit in 1999.

It's not very interesting.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I was going to do an update to 2001 but HAL bluescreened on me.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I note that the publisher is also into alternative medicine, which confirms all my worst prejudices.