FYI, that book review was announced months ago, long before the Wardell/Matt argument began.

It was funny, like a subsection of the forums who support her and her husband.  Not only did she do the review but made sure evryone saw she did it and posted a lot more to get peole going in the thread.  I have no idea if the book is bad or not, however I have a pretty good idea she is biased on it.

Perhaps you can answer the question then.  I understand the points she makes about the plot of the book and, as I pointed out myself, there is  nothing exciting or special in the content of the book.  But what the hell does grammar have to do with it?  If I only read books that had proper grammar I'd not only have to learn the proper grammar (above and beyond what I require to get by daily and do my job) but I'd have to cut out a lot of books.  So should I just read the same set of books over and over again, never checking out anything new just because an author can't put together a sentence properly despite the fact that I'm fully capable of understanding it?

Of course you could always tell me to write one myself except I have absolutely no creativity, don't care to write my own book when I can read others, and generally have no desire to put forth the effort to do so.

I realize most of your commentary was probably directed at others in the post, but I'm actually curious since you touch on the grammar issue.  What do I do when all the good grammar books on subjects I care to read have already been read?

LOL. 

http://www.unamommer.com/

Review of Destiny's Embers: August 28, 2010.

The last book she reviewed: January 3, 2010.

I admire the passion people have in trying to pretend that this was just a random review.

I'm just calling it like it is. Sorry but we're talking about pretty horrible people here.  She picked the book of someone she didn't like so she and her buddies could ridicule it. Even granting the premise that it's a terrible book, it's still the labors of very very small, petty people.

That's why the thread on QuarterToThree.com is so hilarious. It's like a traffic accident. You don't want to gawk but you hungrily wait for what puerile thing they'll say next.  

As sad as that sounds, it does happen, especailly the crazy ones...not saying she is crazy but if any of this is the reasons for the review then...

Source? And how long did the "Wardell/Matt" start?

You've already completed every book on a subject that uses language correctly?

Source: It's buried in the elemental thread somewhere, when the book is mentioned, Angie pipes in and says that sounds like unamommer fodder if I remember correctly.

That thread is really depressing. Are these adults?

Wow, really?  So now I'm expected to not only learn proper grammar I'm supposed to go through every book out there on a subject I care about and find out if they have proper grammar before I pick them up to read?  Or maybe I should get a book and immediately put it down/return it after I find out it doesn't have proper grammar?

Again, nothing wrong with putting forth your opinion on a book, but bringing grammar into it when the book is perfectly understandable is just ridiculous.

Edit:

Assuming its a book purely for entertainment purposes.

LOL. So according to what you said, she planned on shitting on it before it came out. 

Occam's Razor, doesn't jive with you. Husband gets banned from their site and pissed off wife comes out of retirement to shit on book with her comic-book guy friends piling on.

Ummm, I was responding to your statement.

"What do I do when all the good grammar books on subjects I care to read have already been read?"

And once again, you guys are talking about the people in the most popular forum for the game development and journalism industry.  Please don't join and bring this bullshit over there.  We like quality content.

Yeah, look, you're wrong. You're wrong because you're guessing on the thinnest of clues and because you have no idea of what the hell QT3 is or Brad's relationship is or who angie and Matt are.

Rest assured, if angie wanted to vent her hate, she'd do so directly and no-one would be in any doubt about her opinion of Brad. Instead, you've got her opinion of Brad's book - which, as a tie-in to a computer game, is exactly the sort of thing she reads and dices for a laugh - and you're conflating it into an attack.

Say what you like about Matt, because he's petty and has personal issues with Brad Wardell, but when people who actually post on QT3 and know the full story are telling you that you're wrong, it's worth admitting that they speak from a position of knowledge. 

Brad could be any person in the world and that book would get the same review, because it appears to be complete trash.

You should see the elemental thread....it's like a bunch of children in a school yard.

FWIW, if a book has poor grammar, it's a big minus for me. Publishers and editors get paid to clean that stuff up, and good writers practice proper grammar because it's part of the craft of writing. I don't know what THE book's use of grammar is like...but by definition, I give less credit to writers that think it's not important. It is.

Bad grammar is excusable when authors themselves don't really care about their work, or take it seriously. If they don't care enough about their work to do it right, why should I care about their work either?

I don't think you understand the Unamommer site.  Her passion is seeking out novels she suspects will be hilarious, and sharing the results with the internet.  So yes, she ends up picking up a lot of video game tie-in novels, because as literature, these products are often hilarious.

oh bullshit.  do you really believe what you just said there?

'it appears to be complete trash' because? because? some pissed off chick on a forum her husband got banned form says so with some quotes? maybe it is complete trash, i dunno. i'm not one to criticise for spelling and grammar but the thread jaker linked to on that site makes those people look like the most despicable group i've seen.

You know, reading this thread got me thinking the same thing. The number of people willing to go to bat for a bad novel is astounding.

I think everyone on here needs to go to the link below and rate down the negative reviews my M Thornhill and M. J. Gallant. Also anyone like me who has purchased the book should review it once you have read at least the first 5 chapters or preferably after you have finished reading it and give it an honest review.

http://www.amazon.com/Elemental-Destinys-Embers-Bradley-Wardell/product-reviews/0345517865/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending 

Not so much for a bad novel, but a bad judgement call by her to review it. 

Further more, I don't know why brad visits that forum, they seem to be pretty petty.  Very agressive and alot of anger on those boards.

*laughs*

Sorry you are just being hilarious. Yes, the issue is just so complex. Her hubby gets banned and two days later, bam, here comes the first review she's written since the start of the year.

Uh huh. Apparently for the second time in a whole year. She's a dynamo. 

JayG, as has been addressed, the quotes speak for themselves.  Angie simply provided her own riffs of of them.  I even peeked at a few pages the other day in the bookstore, and those kind of sentence fragments interspersed with gigantic run-ons are more than just common throughout the entire body of text.

I find it hilarious that some people think that the Gallant family is so cut up over being banned from someone else's forum that they are expending any energy whatsoever into an elaborate revenge plot spanning multiple internet sites.

This just keeps getting better and better.