Amy- Busted link 1:23pm.

Thing is, it sounds like it would be an interesting SciFI book!

According the the Amazon page for the book it takes place in 2902. I downloaded the Kindle sample and it matches the blurb.

> it matches the blurb.

Exactly... A fiction-minded guy, still young enough to think playfully, and with the intimate understanding of schoolroom interplay, could write a good book about that.

Of course, our culture wants to (evolutionarily!) psycho-therapeute the guy.

I hope he wins a fucking Hugo, and goes to the top of the Nytbr fiction list.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/30/1326004/-Incarcerated-For-Writing-Science-Fiction#

Closer:

http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/29/teachers-fiction-novel-produces-most-ins

Here's another example.

The "Homeland Security" agent is simply a piece of trash, a busybody with a badge, a health-care plan, three-and-a-half weeks off every year, and a six-figure salary that he will never, ever earn.

And the girls are cute and strong-looking. Loving parents will do that for you.

Awesome detective work! Only took 3 years to track him down after it was published!

The CBS report quotes Dorchester Sheriff James Phillips: "[Patrick McLaw] is currently at a location known to law enforcement and does not currently have the ability to travel anywhere.”

The WBOC16 report says, "The sheriff would not disclose where McLaw is now, but he did say that he is not on the Eastern Shore."

OK, so he's at a location known to law enforcement, they won't say where but it's a long way away, and he's not able to go anywhere.

That sounds pretty ominous. I wonder if he got renditioned.

If they don't come up with some information that justifies all of that pretty soon I'm going to start thinking that mental instability has become a qualification for employment in law enforcement and education.

> and does not currently have the
> ability to travel anywhere.

WTF?

Bought the book.

Maybe I'll read it, maybe not… That's not the point.

Great that you bought it.

And reading it or whether the guy is or isn't a good writer isn't the point.

This is horrible, what's happened to the guy. This is the adult version of kids eating their pop tart into the shape of a revolver getting suspended from school.

Handsome parallel.

It's horrible, really weak.

Ok, I didn't finish the first page.

I *couldn't* finish the first page. I'll share it in the morning, but Blecccccchhhh.....

Not saying he deserves confinement and a full psychological workup or anything. .

But it's sad to think of writers this bad teaching school, too.

I read the sample Amazon offered and the writing is a bit grandiloquent. No more so than James Fenimore Cooper.

Middle daughter is a freshman at college. She made friends with a young girl from China, who, when seeing this story, was shocked that something like that could happen in the U.S.

She should be.

Here.

PREFACE

Affluence. Intelligence. Power. Ascendancy. Superiority. All words that were once considered to be paramount for the repute of an empire that subjugated this world for so many epochs —The United States of America— the headmaster among superiors. With its account of resilience, irreproachable ethics, and celestial sanctification, it was regarded as the archetype of an infallible nation. So how, exactly, does a country with such an admirable repute collapse in less than one millennium subsequent to its inception? Some individuals say that it was just an occurrence in the succession of nations -empires conquer then collapse. However, most say that is not the half of it; but instead it was the result of its substandard sytem of government which contained duplicity, demoralization, and distrust within its

Etc. I only screengrabbed the one page. (And used my my smartphone to do the transcription... It was too dirty a job for bare hands:

Photo Reader

Description

By simply pointing the camera at documents, brochures, or books, Photo Reader allows you to identify, extract and instantly use meaningful text.

Christ, it looks like a piece of shit... If he were an eleven-year-old boy, you could punish him for using words he didn't understand, and by the time he'd stopped smarting, he'd have grown into some adult political insight. But this is an adult man... a schoolteacher.

> Grandiloquence shouldn't be reason
> to make a man lose his job and throw
> him into a psych eval.

Yew sher? Read the passage again.

That's the first page… That's how he says Hello.

That's the first page… That's how he says Hello.

Okay, so he's the love child of Faulkner and Michener. He still shouldn't be locked up for it.

To be paramount for the repute.

According to one of the articles, he's 23 now, and the book was published three years ago. I'll forgive a 20 year old for pretentious writing.

I can't believe this isn't an Onion article.