I do not have a review up yet, but check out what I do have instead: an eagle-eyed internet spelunker Jade just sent me this amazing link to the best thing ever, which she describes as "the laziest Mary Sue I have ever seen". If you've ever wanted to be as completely ridiculous as possible about the Phantom story, now you can do so without even writing your own bad fanfiction: these guys will do it for you!

Except, you know, with Leroux, so it'll be better. I think. I can't actually tell what translation or retelling is going on there, plus the character selector defaults Christine to dark brown hair, so your guess is as good as mine (but the Persian is there!).

Clearly, I need to own one just for the lulz. But also for Serious Scholarly Study. Yes. That's what this is about.

EDIT: It says "Adapted from the classic by Gaston Leroux." The opportunities for comedy are really endless.

Jiminy Christmas. I complained a while ago about eBooks that I couldn't get because I don't have a Kindle, and apparently that made the market explode with them. I turned up four new ones today while digging around on Amazon. Oh, Amazon, you're making me crazy.

It's not that I don't want eBooks to succeed, because I totally do. I think it's great that people can publish much more accessibly (though when I'm going to be having to read things like this, occasionally positivity is challenging), and it's not like I can complain about the price (would that all the books on my list were less than a dollar). No, it's just that so many of them are currently Kindle-only, and I don't have two to four hundred dollars to dump into an eReader (and let's be honest... I don't have a problem with eReaders, but I'm not excited enough about them to want one of my own at the moment).

I'm just going to have to soldier on somehow. This post brought to you by the Why Haven't I Won the Lottery Yet Foundation.