The Library of the Damned 2012 Sucktastic Awards: The Results!
Posted: July 11, 2012 Filed under: Announcements, Sucktastic Awards, Your Librarians are Crazy | Tags: Addicted Reader, Announcements, Awesome!, Frozenpoodlemeat, Ghostcat, Herr Wozzeck, Lyle, TacoMagic, The Psychic Librarian 9 Comments »Hello! Thank you everyone for your votes!
The winners are…. *cues drum roll*
The Library of the Damned 2012 Sucktastic Awards
Posted: July 2, 2012 Filed under: Announcements, Awesome!, Sucktastic Awards, Your Librarians are Crazy | Tags: Addicted Reader, Awesome!, Frozenpoodlemeat, Ghostcat, Herr Wozzeck, Lyle, TacoMagic, The Psychic Librarian 2 Comments »Welcome, Literary Patrons! It’s hard to believe, but a year has nearly passed us by here at the Library. During the last twelve months we have witnessed so many epic fails, but a few have risen up above the rest in their total sucktatude. Your mission, should you chose to humor us, is to vote for the fics / fic authors that have done their utmost to totally fall short.
Below you will find two links that will take you to the voting polls. The nominees have been carefully selected by your Snark Crew and the results of the voting will be revealed on July 11th, our 1-year Snarkaversary date.
279: Lament of Day – One Shot
Posted: June 26, 2012 Filed under: Fairy Tale, Lament of Day | Tags: Addicted Reader, Angst, Book, Fairy Tale, Friendship 10 Comments »Title: Lament of Day
Author: Keysofsnow
Media: Book
Topic: Fairy Tale
Genre: Angst / Friendship
URL: Lament of Day
Critiqued by Addicted Reader
Well, hello there. Please, come in, join me. For today’s snarking, I have wandered back to the “fairy tale” section. Today’s fanfic is a very vague and poorly worded retelling of “Beauty and the Beast.” The author starts the body of the story with the summary, so let’s just jump right in:
Lament of Day
Beauty and the Beast. Because things are less clear in the dark, and make light of it for me.
That is not a sentence. And other than naming the fairy tale being fanfic’d here, it is pretty devoid of information. But you can all see why I picked it to snark.
273: Flashback – One Shot
Posted: June 19, 2012 Filed under: Flashback, To Kill a Mockingbird | Tags: Addicted Reader, Book, Drama, Spiritual, To Kill a Mockingbird 2 Comments »Title: Flashback
Author: S. McIntosh
Media: Book
Topic: To Kill a Mockingbird
Genre: Drama / Spiritual
URL: Flashback
Critiqued by Addicted Reader
Hello, dear readers. This week, we’re going to take a look at a short alternate-character-POV fic from the To Kill a Mockingbird section. This type of fic can be an interesting way to explore a canon scene by describing the action from a new perspective. But as I’m sure you’ve guessed by now, this author does this poorly – otherwise, why bother to mention it here?
Let’s start with the summary, shall we?
Arthur Radley has been watching over his neighborhood for many years know, witnessing the growth of people, but when his time comes to help two of his neighbors, will he spring to action or ignore the calling?
So I bet you can all guess why I chose to look at this fic more closely. But for those who aren’t quite awake yet, I’ll point it out: homophone confusion and a run-on sentence.
There’s also the fact that this summary makes it sound like there’s some suspense, which there isn’t if the author is rehashing a canon scene. Alternate-POV fics aren’t about suspense. Having read the fic, I know that the author goes along with the canon scene, but you can’t tell that from the summary. One more fail to add to the author’s tally.
267: Brains and Brawns – One Shot
Posted: June 12, 2012 Filed under: Brains and Brawns, The Incredibles | Tags: Addicted Reader, Family, Movie, The Incredibles, Tragedy 1 Comment »Title: Brains and Brawns
Author: itheif11
Media: Movie
Topic: The Incredibles
Genre: Tragedy/Family
URL: Brains and Brawns
Critiqued by Addicted Reader
Welcome back, Patrons. Today I have another mostly-nonsensical short fic to share with you, this time from the canon of “The Incredibles,” the Pixar movie about superheroes who are shunned by society and have to go undercover. This little fic reimagines the next-to-last scene, where the Incredibles win but Syndrome, the bad guy, still escapes.
“Time is Ticking and We can’t go Back, My oh, My”
Google (and the author’s note at the end) tell me that this is a lyric to a song. Not really sure what it’s doing here, or what it has to do with the movie or the fic, but I’ll tuck that extra comma into the Spare Punctuation Box for later.
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