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[didymos1120]

Because on Omega, for the first time in his life, Nick Donahue was a somebody.

Yeah, other than, you know, being one the most gifted biotics in the high-profile Ascension Project and being involved in that whole Grayson business.  And nevermind that all this "run away from home to join the circus Biotic Underground" nonsense is pretty much completely at variance with his character in Retribution.

Modifié par didymos1120, 25 janvier 2012 - 02:26 .

[Relix28]

Alright, who else is gonna post a review on Amazon, once this Mass Parody is released?

[izmirtheastarach]

Relix28 wrote...

Alright, who else is gonna post a review on Amazon, once this Mass Parody is released?

It will be nice for an Amazon backlash to be actually based on a review of the work.

[Blacklash93]

Wait... I'm seeing the name Nick.

Is it that bully kid from Ascension?

[Relix28]

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Relix28 wrote...

Alright, who else is gonna post a review on Amazon, once this Mass Parody is released?

It will be nice for an Amazon backlash to be actually based on a review of the work.

lol true. Honest bad rep for once. Well, he deserves it. And not just any bad rep, but a lvl.3 bad rep.

Modifié par Relix28, 25 janvier 2012 - 02:42 .

[didymos1120]

Blacklash93 wrote...

Wait... I'm seeing the name Nick.

Is it that bully kid from Ascension?

Yeah. He grew out that by Retribution though (and was starting to even in Ascension).

[Jcmor]

About Aria leaving Omega, can't that be explained by the events in Mass Effect: Invasion?

[Zangetsu171]

...Is Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way gonna make her appearance in this?

[didymos1120]

Jcmor wrote...

About Aria leaving Omega, can't that be explained by the events in Mass Effect: Invasion?

Given that this is happening before Invasion....no.

[CaptainZaysh]

William Dietz wrote...
For some reason novelizations typically arrive with a very short deadline. I had ten weeks to write HALO: The Flood.

Ten weeks. That's it, that's the explanation, that's the reason why it's s**t.

For about 24 hours it's been baffling me why it's so very bad. Well, now we know. This guy had under three months to learn the universe, outline a story, and write it.

That's why it reads like a preliminary draft: it is. It hasn't been edited because he only had ten weeks to get it written. God knows how long the editors had - ten hours? They would have had no time to do anything more than a quick skim for typos.

It's s**t, but it's not Dietz's fault. Setting a hired gun author ten weeks to write a good novel is ludicrous. Whoever planned this project got the result they deserve.

[Jcmor]

As you know, I wasn't sure I'd it happened before or after.

[TheCreeper]

10 weeks to write a novel...Why would you do that?!

[TMA LIVE]

I think he had a year to write this one. Since it was announced in April:

http://sf-fantasy.su...fect-novel.html

And even then I think we knew he was writing a Mass Effect book way before that.

[didymos1120]

Jcmor wrote...

As you know, I wasn't sure I'd it happened before or after.

Dietz probably wasn't either.

[TMA LIVE]

Yep, we even knew he was writing a Mass Effect book back in July 2010.

http://news.bigdownl...william-c-diet/

[izmirtheastarach]

And what does it matter either way? It takes two seconds to verify some of this simple info he's screwed up.

[TMA LIVE]

Just saying, he had no 10 week excuse. And neither did the guys reviewing his work.

Modifié par TMA LIVE, 25 janvier 2012 - 03:27 .

[didymos1120]

His "average errors per page" rate has to be approaching one.

[JeffZero]

I think I'm going to rewatch Babylon 5 instead. Even "Soul Hunter" and "TKO" were consistent within their universe.

[ravene]

all i can do is shake my head at the errors and i just skimed it. I have it preordered and ill still pick it up but if its as bad as the excerpt looks im not shrue i will managed to read without lots of breaks inbetween chapters.

[izmirtheastarach]

I am seriously considering not reading it at all. The comedy value alone may not be worth it.

[What a Succulent Ass]

Zangetsu171 wrote...

...Is Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way gonna make her appearance in this?

That would actually improve the story.

[Mr. MannlyMan]

CaptainZaysh wrote...

William Dietz wrote...
For some reason novelizations typically arrive with a very short deadline. I had ten weeks to write HALO: The Flood.

Ten weeks. That's it, that's the explanation, that's the reason why it's s**t.

For about 24 hours it's been baffling me why it's so very bad. Well, now we know. This guy had under three months to learn the universe, outline a story, and write it.

That's why it reads like a preliminary draft: it is. It hasn't been edited because he only had ten weeks to get it written. God knows how long the editors had - ten hours? They would have had no time to do anything more than a quick skim for typos.

It's s**t, but it's not Dietz's fault. Setting a hired gun author ten weeks to write a good novel is ludicrous. Whoever planned this project got the result they deserve.

Given that the book was announced in April of last year (meaning that the deal had been sealed by that point), I doubt Dietz had only ten weeks to write the book.


Edit: just realized that the quote you quoted was from Dietz referring to his HALO novel... so what does that have to do with Deception? 

Modifié par Mr. MannlyMan, 25 janvier 2012 - 03:37 .

[didymos1120]

Also, while that might mitigate the lore cluster@#$%ery somewhat, it does naught at all to get him off the hook for the just plain substandard prose. As you know.

[JeffZero]

I know.