On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Steven (helleq@gmail.com) wrote:

Hey Maddox, I stole a copy of your monkey-assed book today. I shouldn't have wasted my time! It's a steaming pile of camel s***. At least it was easy to steal (Barnes and Noble has the worst anti-theft system I've encountered). The artwork is good, but the text is awful. Big surprise. The part you didn't do is great, the part you did do makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a used dildo. You suck.

- Steven

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On 6/26/06, maddox <maddox@xmission.com> wrote:


Hey, good job Jackass. Someone stupid enough to steal doesn't
appreciate good literature? Stop the f***ing press!

I'm making around $1-$2 per copy, way to rage against the machine s***
face.

<maddox@xmission.com>
<http://maddox.xmission.com>

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On 6/28/06, Steven <helleq@gmail.com> wrote:

You know, your book sucks so much I think I am going to try to sneak it back in to Barnes and Noble. I don't want my friends or children to see what bad taste in have in the literature I choose to purloin. This will only be the third book I have ever stole that I regret (the first being a copy of 'Teach Yourself to Fly' and the second is 'The Architechture and Structure of Modern Skycrapers' I stole on September 10, 2001). The next time you release a book, which is not likely to happen, considering the quality of your current book, I have a bit of advice: don't. Take a lesson from Socrates: stop corurpting the youth, and just drink the damn hemlock already.

-Steven


I AWAIT HIS REPLY

This is funny.

Hehe, brilliant. You're such a smartass, Hellequin.

I can still learn from you, even when it's not about keeping secret gifts for special occasions you forgot about with girls.

Go Maddox go!

Well, we have two of the biggest ***holes battling it out here.

...I don't think the world will survive this.

You do know you spelled "corrupting" wrong, and he's going to tear you up because of it.

Everyone ready for the apocalypse? We have WW3 starting very soon.

haha.

Q F T

It isn't funny that you're a moron. Way to suck at being a jerk.

Hate to tell you this, but Maddox is kicking your *** in this conversation. You should just stop.

well I think its funny

Is Barnes and Noble's anti theft system really that bad? Do they put magnetic strips in the books? Details, books are spensive mon

And that is pretty funny, it's like the war of the witty uber smart asses.

At many bookplaces it is very easy to simply remove the magnetic strip from the book

Only $1-$2 per copy? No wonder. It's filth! No publisher worth his printing press would distribute that s***. Maddox make it out like it's no big loss to him, but you should tell him the book was so bad, you want him to lose as much money as possible: he's already lost his dignity.

Not that Pommy would know. Solid, upstanding citizen that he is.

This is hilarious.

Too true.

As any true thief will tell you it is easy to get around most security systems. THe one they hate is the movable track mounted cameras that are inside the one way glass tubes.


P.S. Ex-security guard here.

HA! I was about to post something like "ooh, you started an email fight. Hooray," but then I read this.

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]It isn't funny that you're a moron. Way to suck at being a jerk.[/QUOTE]SAJN_Master is calling you a moron. That's like a double-negative, which means you're doing great.

Maddox is a retard.

Maddox is awesome. He doesn't take what he writes seriously, but for some reason so many people do. He writes these things because they are funny. You know what, it doesn't even matter what you think because he is the one with a chart topping book and you are not.

Well, the (uber)discount books are on shelves left out in the open outside the store. And the bargain-bin books have no strips on them (why do the effort). Now DVDs and CDs are a different story.

About the email drama, not sure what to think about it...
Didn't know he bothers to respond to emails. He must get a ton.

Chart topping?

So what, I still think hes a moron!

"Corurpting?" He's going to get you for that.

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]You know what, it doesn't even matter what you think because he is the one with a chart topping book and you are not.[/QUOTE]

Oh ****, i didnt know that you can't criticise famous internet people.

It wasn't funny until you threatened to sneak it back in. I don't understand the 9/11 reference though, is it a joke?

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Well, he hasn't replied yet, and I don't think he is going to.

I typed the reply at 5:30 in the morning before I went to work, so proper typing was not my greatest concern.

way to go Hellboy, you picked a fight with someone admired and worshipped by millions of young blokes.

Nice try.

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Just to make things clear, I've actually never stolen a book in my life. I'm one of those people who will return day after day and read and finish the book in the bookstore

I've done that, too. I once read a 326 page ($125) book on Currency trading over the course of 3 weeks in a Borders.

I didn't steal the book, either (not from B and N, anyway, but from a friend). It's midly amusing, but, as I said, the art is the best part. I sent the email primarily to get a rise out of Maddox and his fanboys, and a good laugh for me. Apparently, I succeeded at both.

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]Maddox is awesome.[/QUOTE]No he isn't.
Apparently he takes what ]-[ellequin writes seriously too, making him a giant moron.
Mission failed.
Ann Coulter's first book, 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors', spent 8 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Maddox has good company apparently.

Nice. That made my day. Pity there was no response.

Actually, the $1-$2 probably has little to do with the quality of content. Taking into account the paying of the publisher as well as the companies who actually sell it (such as Barnes and Noble), it's not surprising that the author himself makes a small amount.

What's all this about authors making money now?