FYI, that book review was announced months ago, long before the Wardell/Matt argument began.

Perhaps you can answer the question then.  I understand the points she makes about the plot of the book and, as I pointed out myself, there is  nothing exciting or special in the content of the book.  But what the hell does grammar have to do with it?  If I only read books that had proper grammar I'd not only have to learn the proper grammar (above and beyond what I require to get by daily and do my job) but I'd have to cut out a lot of books.  So should I just read the same set of books over and over again, never checking out anything new just because an author can't put together a sentence properly despite the fact that I'm fully capable of understanding it?

Of course you could always tell me to write one myself except I have absolutely no creativity, don't care to write my own book when I can read others, and generally have no desire to put forth the effort to do so.

I realize most of your commentary was probably directed at others in the post, but I'm actually curious since you touch on the grammar issue.  What do I do when all the good grammar books on subjects I care to read have already been read?

As sad as that sounds, it does happen, especailly the crazy ones...not saying she is crazy but if any of this is the reasons for the review then...

You've already completed every book on a subject that uses language correctly?

That thread is really depressing. Are these adults?

LOL. So according to what you said, she planned on shitting on it before it came out. 

Occam's Razor, doesn't jive with you. Husband gets banned from their site and pissed off wife comes out of retirement to shit on book with her comic-book guy friends piling on.

Yeah, look, you're wrong. You're wrong because you're guessing on the thinnest of clues and because you have no idea of what the hell QT3 is or Brad's relationship is or who angie and Matt are.

Rest assured, if angie wanted to vent her hate, she'd do so directly and no-one would be in any doubt about her opinion of Brad. Instead, you've got her opinion of Brad's book - which, as a tie-in to a computer game, is exactly the sort of thing she reads and dices for a laugh - and you're conflating it into an attack.

Say what you like about Matt, because he's petty and has personal issues with Brad Wardell, but when people who actually post on QT3 and know the full story are telling you that you're wrong, it's worth admitting that they speak from a position of knowledge. 

Brad could be any person in the world and that book would get the same review, because it appears to be complete trash.

FWIW, if a book has poor grammar, it's a big minus for me. Publishers and editors get paid to clean that stuff up, and good writers practice proper grammar because it's part of the craft of writing. I don't know what THE book's use of grammar is like...but by definition, I give less credit to writers that think it's not important. It is.

Bad grammar is excusable when authors themselves don't really care about their work, or take it seriously. If they don't care enough about their work to do it right, why should I care about their work either?

oh bullshit.  do you really believe what you just said there?

'it appears to be complete trash' because? because? some pissed off chick on a forum her husband got banned form says so with some quotes? maybe it is complete trash, i dunno. i'm not one to criticise for spelling and grammar but the thread jaker linked to on that site makes those people look like the most despicable group i've seen.

I think everyone on here needs to go to the link below and rate down the negative reviews my M Thornhill and M. J. Gallant. Also anyone like me who has purchased the book should review it once you have read at least the first 5 chapters or preferably after you have finished reading it and give it an honest review.

http://www.amazon.com/Elemental-Destinys-Embers-Bradley-Wardell/product-reviews/0345517865/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending 

*laughs*

Sorry you are just being hilarious. Yes, the issue is just so complex. Her hubby gets banned and two days later, bam, here comes the first review she's written since the start of the year.

Uh huh. Apparently for the second time in a whole year. She's a dynamo. 

JayG, as has been addressed, the quotes speak for themselves.  Angie simply provided her own riffs of of them.  I even peeked at a few pages the other day in the bookstore, and those kind of sentence fragments interspersed with gigantic run-ons are more than just common throughout the entire body of text.

I find it hilarious that some people think that the Gallant family is so cut up over being banned from someone else's forum that they are expending any energy whatsoever into an elaborate revenge plot spanning multiple internet sites.

This just keeps getting better and better.