Thread: The Greatest Story Ever Written: Chapter One

What are terriosts? Are they evil?

Depends what you class evil as, if blowing up innocent people because their beliefs are different, then i would have to say thats pretty damn evil.

Along your lines of defence, you could defend hitler.

Who's to say what evil really is? Well, common sense, thats who.

I'd have to agree with the previous posts about the story. What's the point of writing a character who can do no wrong and flawless? Pretty boring if you ask me, and being from the same town as Vic grew up in, being an owner of a restaurant just doesn't seem his style anyway, but I guess anythings possible. Definitely not novel material unless you change a few aspects of the story and make them half way believable. But that's just me. Sorry..

Astonishing

In all honesty, I'm not sure what the purpose of this story is. If it is (as you suggest) a satire, it is a satire on what? All I can find is a set of american celebrities' names dropped in unlikely places in a short story that is..well...a little wierd.

The central character, on the other hand, does not seem to have a name at all, nor any defining attributes besides overall perfection. There seem to be no real events beyond the further dropping of unlikely names in even more unlikely places and a small locker-room pep-rally in which the central character urges a team to victory through the use of comparrison with the Vietnam war. If this piece has something to say, I'm afraid it is beyond me.

Oh, and Godwin in 17.

I appreciate that you actually read the post. Without over-explaining, I will say that it is meant to satirize the American fascination with celebrity, and our own feelings of self-importance. The esoteric style is one I "borrowed" from the early works of another writer, who I will not name here. Some people have said they love it, more have said they hate it. Either way is fine with me.

I should add the url to the original blog Pop Culture Mess!!! and explain that this is meant to be comedic. There have been several complaints about arrogance of the title, and without seeming defensive, I thought it worth mentioning that it is tongue in cheek. If you visit the url you will find an explanation for the title there.

Hi
Totally radical, needs a bit of tension. Feels like you watched airplane a bit to often.
I'm not complaining about the title, but I'm sure a better one will occur to you after it's been finished.

By the way, what is the

international "call me" sign

I could find it really useful.

Along with everyone else I was intrigued by the title. Then I started reading and hit an egregious grammatical error in the second sentence. Ordinarily this would not have stopped me, but a pretentious title combined with such an obvious error did cause me to lose interest.

Get hold of a first-form grammar and study it, then try again.