...and some really bad writing

[anotheranon]

Eurgh. Scooter Libby* wrote erotica. And it's crap, truly crap. I'm not going to pick apart every comma and apostrophe (Susie Bright did a better job of that than I ever could have) but even his note to Judith Miller is purple - violently purple, or magenta, or something else like that.

What's even more disturbing is his choice of subject matter - beastiality and incest (I think I can safely ask for a collective "eww"!). Read excerpts at your own risk.

* For non-Americans - Scooter Libby was the Vice Presidential aide who just got indicted for perjury, among other things. I have no idea how he got the name "Scooter".

Comments

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

“[She] finally came to him in the bed and shouted ‘Arragghrrorwr!’ in his ear, bit his neck, plunged her head between his legs and devoured him”

Though I tend to like it swift and rough, that is abit too [insert expression of choise], even for me. Ouch x 2...

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Reads more like starving cannibal than desire. :p

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, indeed! I tested saying ‘Arragghrrorwr!’ out loud a couple of times here at the office, just to try it out, and the co-workers looks very much more frightened than aroused...I'm not sure I got pronunciation exactly right though ;)

‘Arragghrrorwr!’

[timcharmorbien.livejournal.com]

Were the characters Wookies by any chance? :p

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

One of my favorites is David Brin's "Glory Season". It's a female dominant culture, as a result of genetic tweaks which result in an absolutely fascinating culture--parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction side by side. Definitely worth a looksee.

"Ammonite" by Nicola Griffith is equally good.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up! I'll be on the lookout...

[timcharmorbien.livejournal.com]

Glory Season! I've been wracking my brain tryihg to remember that title to recommend. Thanks, that was driving me crazy! :)

Scooter's Origins

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, it's Susie. thanks so much for the pointer. I could have gone ON AND ON. He broke every erotic writing rule in the book and then shat on it.

by the way, I read that his name "scooter" comes from infancy, when he would "scoot" around on his tummy. his real first name is Irving.

susie bright

your tax dollars at work

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, makes me get warm fuzzies thinking that Cheney's top aid spends his free time writing soft-porn. Not to mention that the party at which Cheney toasted Libby on the publication of said book was probably partly paid for by our tax dollars. Yay, America.

For more on Libby, including his idea that Cheney is the next Winston Churchill (*puke*), see this week's Newsweek. Hubris, what?

-Lydia