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Date Posted: 00:02:47 10/08/04 Fri
Author: volt
Author Host/IP: 4.27.250.92
Subject: Jammelah IS talented, but a shrew nonetheless
In reply to: volt 's message, "It's not horrible" on 17:38:05 10/07/04 Thu

Rereading Jam's essay (and having read other writings of hers, back when LK still had not become the micro-police state it is today), I admit I was mistaken in calling her writing that of a 10 grade failed cheerleader. She is really one of the best writers to appear on October Earth or LitKicks, in spite of her control freak 'tude and her subservience to Genghis Asher.

Her writing is sort of Raymond Carver-esque, and a bit melancholy, sometimes with startling images you might encounter in a Flannery O Connor story. She writes bizarre first person reflective essays that are almost good, but still quite juvenile; though tragic, her essays are the sort of tragedy-lite of goth rock, of Anne Rice, of Wynona Ryder or Tim Burton movies. Unintentionally very frightening, ersatz tragedies, scarier for their kitchiness.

So while I detest pretty much the entire LK project, I will admit that Jammelah Earle IS a real talent, a budding writer, not Virginia Woolfe or Faulkner, but unique and perhaps gifted. Hopefully she will get it together and break free of the Asherocracy and maybe succeed.

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