(Jim Robert Bader's "A Tale of Two Wallets")
As to spelling, grammar, et cetera, his work does have problems - but the underlying Thing is easily good enough to make it worthwhile. In the interests of improving the cosmetics (what I refer to as "production values"), I had begun a project of going through and sending him corrections as best I could suggest them on one chapter at a time; that stalled with chapter 20 in late '02, and I never got back to it, but the project could theoretically resume at any point.
Am I starting to ramble? Maybe. Anyway, to those who can stand that type of content I do recommend Jim Robert Bader's work very highly (though there is much of it which I have not read myself); the man is amazingly prolific, at least in terms of byte-count, and while it's far from being high literature what I've read of his work tends towards the highly entertaining.
(The only things I had problems with, content-wise, were the non-consensual sex segments - most especially as applies to Madam Lao, though I understand she is not his own creation. Screwing with minds like that is just... gyaaarh. Violation of self is one of the closest things there is to an unforgivable offense in my book - and now I know I'm rambling.)
Quote:He's gone back to it?? Excellent! Last I'd heard he hadn't been working on much of anything for a while, and he certainly hadn't touched ATOTW for quite some time... my earliest record still extant is from October '01, and as of at least late '02 it was unchanged from that time (with 119 chapters, four lemon sidestories and one eleven-chapter lemon side arc, for a total of 11MB of text).
It is still going strong: part 128 was
released 1/12/2004.
As to spelling, grammar, et cetera, his work does have problems - but the underlying Thing is easily good enough to make it worthwhile. In the interests of improving the cosmetics (what I refer to as "production values"), I had begun a project of going through and sending him corrections as best I could suggest them on one chapter at a time; that stalled with chapter 20 in late '02, and I never got back to it, but the project could theoretically resume at any point.
Am I starting to ramble? Maybe. Anyway, to those who can stand that type of content I do recommend Jim Robert Bader's work very highly (though there is much of it which I have not read myself); the man is amazingly prolific, at least in terms of byte-count, and while it's far from being high literature what I've read of his work tends towards the highly entertaining.
(The only things I had problems with, content-wise, were the non-consensual sex segments - most especially as applies to Madam Lao, though I understand she is not his own creation. Screwing with minds like that is just... gyaaarh. Violation of self is one of the closest things there is to an unforgivable offense in my book - and now I know I'm rambling.)