Bad reviews

The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from Time's list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present.

Thanks to kiwiria for the link.

Character meme

Gacked from bookshop, and this is really a great one:

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

1. Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan (Lois McMaster Bujold)
2. Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan (Lois McMaster Bujold)
3. Lord Ivan Vorpatril (Lois McMaster Bujold)
4. Anne Elliot (Jane Austen's Persuasion)
5. Sophy Stanton-Lacy from Georgette Heyer's The Grand Sophy
6. Janet from pameladean's Tam Lin
7. The Phouka from coffeeem's War for the Oaks
8. Uriah Heep from Dicken's David Copperfield
9. Elinor Dashwood (Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility)
10. Marianne Dashwood (Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility)
11. Elizabeth Bennet (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
12. Samwise Gamgee
11. Frodo Baggins
12. Merry Brandybuck
13. Pippin Took
14. Gandalf the Grey
15. Lucy Pevensie from the Narnia books
16. Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)
17. Bertie Wooster
18. lupercus (from nocturne_alley)
19. potions_master (from nocturne_alley)
20. Richard Sharpe
21. The favorite fictional character of all of you.