Some random book snark

Dear Spider Robinson,

Why is it that I can get so engrossed in one of your books that I get a little sad inside when the bus comes to a stop and I have to stop reading, yet when I think about what you have actually written, I want to smack you?

My main gripe, aside from the fact that you would love to be in a manwich between Robert Heinlein and John D. MacDonald is that there are very few writers who can pull off subtle references to their previous works without sounding like a wanker. You? Completely fail.

Also, you would be a lot funnier if you didn’t try so hard. As it is, most of the time when your characters start trying to be funny, I want to reach through the book and strangle you, just to make my head stop hurting.

I really wish I could hate you, though, dammit. Because then I’d feel less guilty about mocking you.

Still faithfully reading,
Shannon