tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post7652591385368828114..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Douglas MacKinnon: The Bulwer-Lytton of the Joint CommandScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-15497262866503537992017-02-04T19:10:36.501-08:002017-02-04T19:10:36.501-08:0025 pages in, I had to stop reading this crap. It i...25 pages in, I had to stop reading this crap. It is written in first person, and I am sure Ian Wallace has an attention deficiency. He can't complete a thought without going into a political rant. We get it, Ian. You're a conservative. Now get on with the story. Nevermind, I'm just going to watch some paint dry. That's way more interesting than what I read.That Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428293063543230735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-22277269441145978082012-05-09T12:48:52.925-07:002012-05-09T12:48:52.925-07:00Ian Wallace: Sam Spade channeling Michele Bachman...Ian Wallace: Sam Spade channeling Michele Bachmann. Without the irony.trashfirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-78317465940633453832012-05-09T02:31:16.672-07:002012-05-09T02:31:16.672-07:00Nah, it would be more hate-sexy and rapey:
"...Nah, it would be more hate-sexy and rapey:<br /><br />"He pierced her liberal iconography and thrust his massive right-thinking onto her value landscape, where he deposited the seeds of her conversion."Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-75646713702290832632012-05-08T06:45:28.233-07:002012-05-08T06:45:28.233-07:00I'm guessing because he's family values we...I'm guessing because he's family values we don't get any sex scenes, which is too bad because given the rest of the prose they could probably win awards.<br />"He embraced her conservative values with his federalist arms which he had washed lest they had touched the lily livered Massachusetts liberal air..."negative 1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-54415155459546642872012-05-04T06:10:52.996-07:002012-05-04T06:10:52.996-07:00Oh good, another whiny guy who pretends to be toug...Oh good, another whiny guy who pretends to be tough but is a delicate little flower who must have every whim and thought catered to him lest he crumble in a mass of quivering emotional goo. 'Cause there ain't 'nuff of them already.<br /><br />He's going to be crushed when he finally realizes that it's not his politics but his atrocious Marty Stu writing style that offends most people. Ian may be able to take care of himself, but I don't think MacKinnon possesses the same wherewithal.Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-92193045571439567572012-05-03T19:06:26.380-07:002012-05-03T19:06:26.380-07:00Well, Blogger, it amused me, but I hardly think it...Well, Blogger, it amused me, but I hardly think it was worth posting twice.<br /><br />Sigh.TMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16972726941993291842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-68426289125304471422012-05-03T18:56:02.860-07:002012-05-03T18:56:02.860-07:00...so maybe he also forgot about humping an M-16 t...<i>...so maybe he also forgot about humping an M-16 through the sweltering rice paddies of Indochina</i>.<br /><br />But the fantasy of humping a 16 year old that sprang up while watching Indochine... that memory shall live with him forever.TMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16972726941993291842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-30581989143070915972012-05-03T18:55:46.581-07:002012-05-03T18:55:46.581-07:00...so maybe he also forgot about humping an M-16 t...<i>...so maybe he also forgot about humping an M-16 through the sweltering rice paddies of Indochina</i>.<br /><br />But the fantasy of humping a 16 year old that sprang up while watching Indochine... that memory shall live with him forever.TMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16972726941993291842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-74115783834662915742012-05-02T19:06:42.672-07:002012-05-02T19:06:42.672-07:00It was deliberate, Dave, the thumbnail description...It was deliberate, Dave, the thumbnail description being that you can't libel the dead.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-63509396905032167132012-05-02T18:35:32.164-07:002012-05-02T18:35:32.164-07:00You know Scott, after reading those excerpts, it i...You know Scott, after reading those excerpts, it is my opinion that the post title is a serious insult to Bulwer-Lytton.Weird Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-29119461122721764872012-05-02T18:15:00.268-07:002012-05-02T18:15:00.268-07:00"What sets the main character Ian Wallace apa..."What sets the main character Ian Wallace apart is that he is fanatically conservative and proudly wears his strong belief in Traditional Values on his sleeve."<br /><br />Most CIA agents being squishy-brained liberal poofs! And don't get me started on the FBI!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-68420594307890324302012-05-02T16:36:12.743-07:002012-05-02T16:36:12.743-07:00So this is a story about the most boring CIA opera...So this is a story about the most boring CIA operative ever?Liz212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-64472074106585358662012-05-02T15:09:26.044-07:002012-05-02T15:09:26.044-07:00For those of you who are stunned that this dreck g...For those of you who are stunned that this dreck got published, please note that it came out under the Threshold imprint. As memory serves, that was the same division that predicted Pam Geller as a runaway success. Just sayin'.D Johnstonhttp://kingdomofsharks.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-75503065027922724822012-05-02T14:16:21.900-07:002012-05-02T14:16:21.900-07:00So, this bullet headed buttfuck has a fragile mind...So, this bullet headed buttfuck has a fragile mind?<br /><br />Duh.heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-78576331432819076182012-05-02T12:20:51.539-07:002012-05-02T12:20:51.539-07:00Vengeance is perhaps best left to g*d. Or it trans...Vengeance is perhaps best left to g*d. Or it transits to the remainder bin at B&N rather quickly.Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-35154249572123223632012-05-02T10:46:36.333-07:002012-05-02T10:46:36.333-07:00Man, this guy's writing is terrible. I hope y...Man, this guy's writing is terrible. I hope you had to read the whole book to get these excerpts, because it would be a horrible thing indeed if this much crap could be found in the first twenty or thirty pages or so.<br /><br />Someone would have to be an idiot to read this and not burst out laughing every page or so.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-71926199121725055052012-05-02T08:20:49.890-07:002012-05-02T08:20:49.890-07:00OK. OK, we get "Ian Williams": One of th...OK. OK, we get "Ian Williams": One of those guys who "loves America", while hating most of the people who live there...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-33207336775529347282012-05-02T08:18:58.734-07:002012-05-02T08:18:58.734-07:00the same "populist" idiots who wear the ...<i>the same "populist" idiots who wear the Che Guevara T-shirts and have no idea of the atrocities that man committed against homosexuals, blacks, and children." </i><br /><br />Now that, dear friends, is some grade "A" concern trolling.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-62325091290478230942012-05-02T08:14:08.570-07:002012-05-02T08:14:08.570-07:00If you're interested, the story behind that is...If you're interested, the story behind that is here:<br /><br />http://jeremyduns.blogspot.com/2011/11/assassin-of-secrets.htmlJim Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140325442403671800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-51737077355063428322012-05-02T08:09:54.736-07:002012-05-02T08:09:54.736-07:00I suspect this is one of those post-modern efforts...I suspect this is one of those post-modern efforts, and he assembled the entire novel out repurposed right-wing blog posts. <br /><br />(Someone actually did recently get a spy novel accepted by major publishers which was entirely--yes, entirely--made up of text stolen from other spy novelists' work, with names changed. Not obscure novelists' work, either. It actually got into print in the U.K., I think, but the U.S. publisher pulled the plug before it got out. The author claimed that it was not a stunt, but that he got in over his head and couldn't complete the work.)Jim Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140325442403671800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-14452125047843093862012-05-02T07:14:57.778-07:002012-05-02T07:14:57.778-07:00MacKinnon does realize that the CIA is part of the...MacKinnon does realize that the CIA is part of the government? That his conservative thriller is about a retired government bureaucrat with a health care plan paid for by helpless taxpayers?William Burnsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-61684267472657708042012-05-02T02:57:59.601-07:002012-05-02T02:57:59.601-07:00The thumbnail description of the book being that t...<i>The thumbnail description of the book being that twenty years after ex-CIA operative Ian Wallace watched a brutal KGB Colonel ruthlessly murder the love of his life (and their unborn child),</i><br /><br />Thumbnail being? Is that a new way of referring to embryos?<br /><br /><i>The former KGB Colonel is now part of the Russian Mafia and on his way to Wallace’s hometown of Boston.</i><br /><br />"Is Bruins fan. What can I say?"<br /><br /><i>What sets the main character Ian Wallace apart is that he is fanatically conservative and proudly wears his strong belief in Traditional Values on his sleeve.</i><br /><br />Who fucks his wife before the wedding and against her parents' insistence.<br /><br /><i>As such -- and as to be expected -- some in the liberal mainstream media have already started to beat-up me, the book, and Ian.</i><br /><br />Ummmmmm, Mac? Piece of advice: if you want people to actually buy your book, it might help if you took a few basic grammar and syntax courses at your local community college first...<br /><br /><i>If I were emperor of the earth for one day, one of the first things I would do would be to disband the TSA and turn the entire operation over to the private sector.</i><br /><br />Self-regulation worked so well in the banking industry last decade..Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-47279278315858145382012-05-02T02:20:24.633-07:002012-05-02T02:20:24.633-07:00Wow. For a "tough guy" this clown spends...Wow. For a "tough guy" this clown spends an awful lot of time contemplating life lived in mortal terror of every liberal boogeyman imaginable. In fact, I'd re-title this wad of wretched stank <i>Help! Mom! There's a Liberal Under My Bed! Part II: Oh My Lord, They're Everywhere!!</i> <br /><br /><i>Chapter Eight: The Next Dirty Little Punk Jew Who Says 'Happy Holidays' To Me, I Swear I'll Stomp Him A New Mudhole</i><br /><br />And of course, the whole world's out to get him and his fictional doppleganger for Daring To Speak The Truth. Cultist-apologists for L. Ron Hubbard didn't whine this much over the critical response to <i>Battlefield Earth</i>, and that response was <i>real.</i><br /><br />"A Thriller for the Tea Party Generation."<br /><br />Okay, I'll buy that much. After all, the author's Mary Sue mentions his "fragile mind;" the whole thing's a stew of persecution-complex paranoia mixed with Coulter-grade bloody revenge fantasy; and it doesn't seem to have too many difficult words. I'm sure there's a "death panel" reference in there to seal the deal.BillyWitchDoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14311279565432013472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-47649362943320632362012-05-02T01:49:29.235-07:002012-05-02T01:49:29.235-07:00So a person who is attending college in Cambridge,...So a person who is attending college in Cambridge, MA is, most likely, a member of the global 1%. So they're rich, if only compared to the median human worldwide.<br /><br />How many people born since 1954 have "had" to serve their country? The draft ended in 1972. What about <a rel="nofollow">Howard Zinn</a>? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Early_life_and_career" rel="nofollow">Daniel Ellsberg</a>? Does bomber pilot in WW2 count? How about platoon leader in the US Marines in active combat?<br /><br />What about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forrestal#Secretary_of_Defense" rel="nofollow">James V Forrestal</a>? He probably wouldn't wear a keffiyeh, but he wasn't exactly a Zionist, either.<br /><br />His notion of "liberal" is, quite simply, anyone who doesn't believe the exact same things he does. Could be a Marxist, an anarcho-primitivist, a member of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Labor_Party" rel="nofollow">HaAvoda</a>, a Ron Paul supporter, an environmentalist, ad infinitum. <br /><br />So logically MacKinnon ought to prefer a strictly socialist country where there are no rich people, and everyone is required to serve their country. And he reviles Pres. George W. Bush for nationalizing airport security.James R MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14721224895163793981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-4540252690191249112012-05-02T01:22:43.825-07:002012-05-02T01:22:43.825-07:00One thing that I find interesting is that the &quo...One thing that I find interesting is that the "fanatical conservative" ideology is nothing more than Wallace [i.e., MacKinnon] announcing how much he hates people who don't agree with him... particularly people who, by his insistence, <i>can't</i> agree with him (e.g., "spoiled, rich, never-had-to-serve-their nation liberal brats"). <br /><br />I mean, what MacKinnon appears to think is "conservative values" is actually a hash of incompatible, arbitrary resentments. Even if someone really has told him he's a horrible person, this is nothing more than what he does with every "value" he has.James R MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14721224895163793981noreply@blogger.com