Letters to the Editor
Anne in NYC
Published Letters: 314 Editor's Choice: 37
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It feels like a threat
[Read the article: The full, final "Harry Potter" -- leaked online!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I went into this article thinking it was just about the book being available online (something I’ve known about since early this morning when every nerdy technology person I know sent out a frantic email). Then I came across this:
“But the copy I have includes all the pages; I could, if I wanted to, tell you the very last line of the very last Harry Potter book right now.”
You know what? That’s a shitty thing to say. It makes me not like Manjoo at all. It strikes me as crazy that this guy didn’t realize that downloading the most anticipated book in recent memory and then threatening to tell us would make him the least popular guy on Salon.
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Re: spoiler definitely INCLUDED
[Read the article: The full, final "Harry Potter" -- leaked online!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I had noticed that too and I’ve been thinking about it way too much since. At the very least there should be a ‘spoiler warning’ at the TOP of the article (not hidden in the very paragraph we should be avoiding).
For now I’m just trying to forget so the story can unfold for me the way the author intended. You only get one first read and I guess we’re all going to have to be mega protective of this one.
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I always ask for more
[Read the article: The costs of asking for a higher salary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It’s a good exercise in getting to know how a future employer operates. If he or she gets all bent out of shape I really don’t want that job no matter how much they’re paying. Also – being ‘less nice’ isn’t really the worst thing you can be in the business world. In fact I think ‘less nice’ sounds like a person who can get the job done without getting stepped on and taken advantage of. I’d way rather be ‘less nice’ then underpaid and overworked.
Of course – in the past 20 years I’ve only worked for men (it’s just worked out that way). That’s a little sad but I’m not about to take a pay cut so I can work for a women who thinks I’m ‘nice.’
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Bitter much?
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So date someone younger or someone who hates kids or someone who’s had his family already or someone who’s had a vasectomy. Those men are out there. But they’re probably not going to be attracted to a woman who dismiss the desires’ of others as ‘breeders’ and ‘selfish’ - because the LW sounds nasty, jealous and unattractive. And he’s certainly not going to stick around for someone who thinks he’s slop and eye’s him with suspicion. The LW’s hurt is getting the better of her and it reeks of sour grapes, bitterness and defeat.
The LW has been jilted a couple of times and that sucks. But she can’t be going around taking her hate out on anyone who reminds her of those bad situations for the rest of time. Get over it and get back out there. And take it easy on us breeders.
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Speaking of Bitter…
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brightstar – you actually sound exactly like this LW! You’ve been hurt a couple of times and now all you can do is dish out your ugly attitude. It’s really the height of irony that you’re here giving advice on this subject.
If you really think when you’re older you’re all of a sudden going to be surrounded by young hotties I think you’re in for a very rude awakening.
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How about teaching her (and maybe yourself) how to text message?
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That way there is no pressure on her to pick up a call when she’s driving or she’s got too many things going on to concentrate on your conversation. She can just text you back when she’s got a moment with two free hands.
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Sounds like what I expected
[Read the article: "Becoming Jane"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really love Jane Austen. I completely feel in love with the BBC/A&E version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Clueless’ is my absolute favorite version of Emma. I’ve got to imagine I’m the target for this bio-pic on Jane Austen (don’t you think Fitzwilliam is a nice name for a baby boy?).
But this movie leaves me cold. I’d rather re-read her work or watch see what else is out there in the fictional mini-series category then imagine what Austen must have been like based on her family history and a few letters – if you tried to define me (or anyone I know) based on so little you’d come up with whatever it is you wanted to see. It’s all very flimsy. I think had it veered out a little further into the land of speculation and fiction (a la ‘Shakespeare in Love’) rather then pretending to be a telling of actual events (as the ads for the film stress it is) I’d have been more interested.
I just went over to the BBC website to see what else was going on and they did a ‘Jane Eyre’ mini-series last year that looks like fun (obviously not Austen – but just as delicious). I think I’d rater rent that. Really there are so many fabulous stories that I love every bit as much as ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I’m surprised Hollywood is so slow to catch on.
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To answer the LW’s question…
[Read the article: How can I help my friend get over losing his girlfriend?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don’t do too much. Just nodding, smiling, being sympathetic and present is going to be enough. Time is the only think that’s really going to help your friend. Also be very careful not to talk smack about his ex - the things you think about her may be true but hearing them is only going to hurt your friend. And if they do get back together (stranger things have happened) you’ll bet the bad guy who hates your friend’s lady.
And totally off topic (like most of these letters) 19 is way too young to be dating a man who is almost 40. I hope he’s not going to make a habit of targeting troubled teenage girls.