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672 Public Reviews Given
673 Total Reviews Given
Review Style
Honest, for the most part. Not hurtful, for the most part. In other words I'll try to be straight up but not step on you face while I'm about it. Oh, by the way, this points business confuses me. I don't want to charge for a review. If I have the points in the bank I'll refund you 900. Why I'm required to ask 1000 is past my understanding.
I'm good at...
Not much. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, most of the mechanical stuff. Good eye for composition. I read a lot and I can give you a reader's opinion. Most good reviews are a fresh eye.
Favorite Genres
western, sci fi , detective, general or literary fiction
Least Favorite Genres
erotica
Favorite Item Types
what, pray tell, is an "item type"?
Least Favorite Item Types
See above
I will not review...
stories about kangaroos
Public Reviews
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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (5.0)
I never, in my wildest imaginings, could have conceived of a poetic form that required a bug. What a country, America.
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Review by Dee C
Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
I really liked the part about clingy, controlling and nagging. It hit home. My best memories of highly respected women were of the times of nudging, suggesting and cajoling, right before they finally laid down the law. Men like to have a choice even though we usually default to the stick and miss the carrot entirely.


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (5.0)
Really good technique by both the Grandpa character and the writer. The reader gets a picture of all the actors by way of the dialogue between the kid and his grandfather. So many stories I see don't have the energy this one does and that energy is so simply bottled in a few lines here. Good writing. Sorry the contest founder went south on you this one is a winner.


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Review by Dee C
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
I have carefully read and re-read the contest information and still I am uncertain how to enter. I have written a story of 1000 words specifically for the contest; it is themed "haunting." This story is now in my portfolio and may be accessed "Invalid Item"  if you need it.

Thanks for reading this SOS.
Delmar Cooper
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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (3.0)
I once did a story about the speed of time, complete with hokey mathematical formula for the calculations of time speed as a function of lubrication (pleasure) and drag (boredom). this piece is more serious in manner and I appreciate its intent.

The piece would have less "drag" if some attention was paid to common grammatical usage. It would be easier to read if the first word in every new sentence was capitalized. But, do as you wish, regardless of my hokey math.
DC


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Review of It's Not Personal  
Review by Dee C
Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Well written and interesting take on the standard issue over the counter mob hit. I enjoy stories that come at a thing from an angle, some slant I haven't seen before. this piece did that and did it perfectly. The lack of remorse dovetailed with the platitude of "It is what it is."
thanks for sharing


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Review of Change  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.0)
Strong finish, the last line packs a punch. We only assume that it is true and there are plenty of differing opinions. There is no reason to worry about it because once it happens there is scant possibility of telling a friend. Next favorite line was the one about the space in between. That space is pretty much where I live.


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Review of Jessica's Cloud  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.5)
Sweet sentiment Grandmother worthy. So fortunate that when the magical cloud appeared the camera was at hand. Most of my poetic moments, those magical appearances of the near mystic were the times when no way to record was at hand. Readers must take most of the beauty of poetry on the word of the poet.


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Review by Dee C
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Amazingly torrid that oil water mix of white hot passion and icy hatred, Possibly the best love (lust) hate juxtaposition I've read. The guilty nature of pleasure is writ large in this chapter and a reader can only hope the chapter sans so much sex is harbinger of drama yet to come.

thanks for sharing
DC


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Review of Broken House  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.5)
Super sweet and just a touch of scary to spice the thing up. As the sun went down and the fire blazed up the stairs began to creak, the cure? A proposal of course. Now do you think the stair creaker should be toting a John Deere or a Poulan chainsaw?


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Review of Angel's Heart  
Review by Dee C
Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
probably needs a little sex to make it believable. All this platonic stuff is for eighteenth century writers. Seriously, this is seriously hot stuff and marketable with a capital M. I thought she was going to bite, but you can't have everything, can you?


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Review of Foggy Night  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.0)
Such a simple thing, a simple question , "Can you see me?" Simple question with complex answers. I suppose every lover or ex-lover has posed this question from time to time. I should smile not time to time, every time. Thank you for sharing this.
Delmar Cooper


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (5.0)
I hope this contest entry of days past was received favorably; it seems you put a great deal of thought into its creation. I imagine, I've never tried it, using the issued words of the prompt may lead to a lesser poem. This was not so in your case the poem was super. thank you for sharing.


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (5.0)
Well, that's not the way I heard it but I wasn't there either and neither was the fellow who told me. So, your version is absolutely as good as anyone else's, regardless of degrees and accolades. I do disagree with George Burns about the avocado. I would hate to have to make guacamole from a thing like a pomegranate. Possibly God simply spared me the tedium.


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (5.0)
I too like spaghetti although I have absolutely no idea on which day God created it. I suspect it may have been on the evening of the day he created Eve. Just helping her out a bit, because I'm sure Adam's first words to her were "What's for dinner?"


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.5)
Thirteen poems? No problem whatsoever, at least not for me, if you count the revisions as poetry I mean. Actually I have reams of unrecycled poetry paper, unfortunately my parakeet died and I no longer need it, undigested sonnet the vet said, but I keep it against the day I may but another bird or need to wrap some fresh fish.


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Review of Dear Me  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.5)
I wonder just how effective this exercise will be? A diary of the future; what a concept. Or conceit, conceit in the literary sense as a device I mean to type, but will it be a device like my cell phone complicated and obtuse. I understand your exercise perfectly and good luck with all your good intentions, I have paved a lot of walkways and runaways with those.


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Review of Tired  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.0)
Absolutely and fantastically true. The bona fide facts of the matter laid bare. Somehow I really think a good lung full of screams is better for the environment than all those salty tears. Ah, what do I know? I can't remember the last time I had a teary moment.

But something helpful: "You claim your the Queen" Check out that third word.

DC


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (5.0)
Gee, it has a nice beat and you can dance to it. I give it several stars, Dick and yeah all the kids love Bandstand.

So when we think there's not thing left to write about we look at the pen, keyboard, pencil, chisel, crayon or scrap of charcoal and say oh yes, we can write about writing.

Well now what's left to write about?

Thanks for sharing.
DC


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Review of Homage to Romance  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.5)
Thank you for the notes. It is a pity I will have forgotten them by breakfast. No reflection on your fine note by lunch I will have forgotten breakfast. I think I will, at least for a time remember the poem , Aubade or marmalade no matter, the dance will go on a while, possibly until supper. Who knows?


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Review of Dear Me  
Review by Dee C
Rated: ASR | (5.0)
What a great letter you wrote. I love it. My daughter is all grown up now, and I miss the little girl who danced with me in the grocery store aisles. But, lucky me I have the memory and the experience of having done a foolish thing that turned out to be wisdom in disguise.

Thanks for sharing and good luck with the contest. I hope you come in second.
LOL
DC


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Review of SAVE OUR CHILDREN  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.0)
Thank you for reminding us all that the grandparents of this world are so often the ones who save the children of the world. We all owe a great deal to our grandparents, but some of us owe everything including our lives. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
DC


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Review of Going Home  
Review by Dee C
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
There is a tendency among writers that every story that is not absolutely realistic has to be absolutely bizarre. I think that is because it is difficult to be restrained enough to write a story that trusts to the intelligence and, let's say, affability of the reader. This story walked that line and perfectly so, no bobbles at all.
DC


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Review of The Monk  
Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (4.0)
Excellent character study. I see one brother as obsessive/compulsive and the other as submissive enabling. I have no idea what those terms mean in the real word of medicine, but like the waitress I believe the advertising, and in that fantasy world where you can bottle freshness and transform animal fat into a vegetable, and obviously, I have a high regard for psychobabble.

Thanks for sharing
DC


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Review by Dee C
Rated: E | (3.0)
The essay states: " The ungenuine information inforced by educatet dictatorial pigs leads to complete chaos."

Suggestion: The propaganda put forth by the educated dictatorial pigs...

Omit: prejudgementally

The essay states; " It means that their form of education can be completly related to the idea that rotten educational system crashes every society."

This could be stated more economically as : A rotten educational system crashes the society it was meant to serve.

Educatet > educated
Ungenuine> false
Completly > completely
Wich> which







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