Hi, I know this is a late response, but I just came across this thread.
I am the Vern in question. I'm sad that some of you didn't like my book, but I honestly can't understand how anybody could read it and get the idea that it was "demeaning" or negative toward Seagal. It's a love letter to his entire career, including his music and energy drink. I absolutely love Seagal's movies and feel that they deserve to be analyzed as serious art. That's why I did just that, spending years writing the book without believing more than a few people would ever read it.
If you read some of the reviews you'll see that the book won over plenty of people who looked down on Seagal's movies to see that he had a message and a style he was getting across. I strongly resent the smarmy attitudes many people have toward the action genre and I've spent more than a decade on my websight and books trying to get more respect for the type of movies I love.
If it bothers you that I have a sense of humor about some of the shortcomings of the movies then yeah, don't read my work. But it would be ridiculous to pretend they weren't there. I think it's part of the charm. You'll never find a more detailed, serious-minded or passionate study of movies even most people on here completely write off as worthless shit. I find something to love in all of them. Please, find me another book that has a whole chapter singing the praises of Out of Reach. I would love to read it.
Masterd48, I have no memory of ever being rude to anybody that emailed me about self-publishing. I always give what little advice I can. I tried to find your email to see what it was that upset you, but I don't know what name you wrote to me under. And I didn't find anything that said "Dear Vern, your book is absolutely terrible, what advice would you have for someone wanting to publish a similar book?" Anyway I'll go ahead and apologize for whatever it was, even though you have such nasty things to say about me and my hard work. I'm sorry I disappointed you.
If anybody here doesn't hate Seagalogy I hope you continue to not hate the new edition, which comes out April 3rd. It has 11 new chapters, including one on Lawman and ones for each of the UK DVD releases of the True Justice episodes that were put together as movies. It'll be available for Kindle also, if you're into that.
thanks,
Vern
http://www.outlawvern.com
I am the Vern in question. I'm sad that some of you didn't like my book, but I honestly can't understand how anybody could read it and get the idea that it was "demeaning" or negative toward Seagal. It's a love letter to his entire career, including his music and energy drink. I absolutely love Seagal's movies and feel that they deserve to be analyzed as serious art. That's why I did just that, spending years writing the book without believing more than a few people would ever read it.
If you read some of the reviews you'll see that the book won over plenty of people who looked down on Seagal's movies to see that he had a message and a style he was getting across. I strongly resent the smarmy attitudes many people have toward the action genre and I've spent more than a decade on my websight and books trying to get more respect for the type of movies I love.
If it bothers you that I have a sense of humor about some of the shortcomings of the movies then yeah, don't read my work. But it would be ridiculous to pretend they weren't there. I think it's part of the charm. You'll never find a more detailed, serious-minded or passionate study of movies even most people on here completely write off as worthless shit. I find something to love in all of them. Please, find me another book that has a whole chapter singing the praises of Out of Reach. I would love to read it.
Masterd48, I have no memory of ever being rude to anybody that emailed me about self-publishing. I always give what little advice I can. I tried to find your email to see what it was that upset you, but I don't know what name you wrote to me under. And I didn't find anything that said "Dear Vern, your book is absolutely terrible, what advice would you have for someone wanting to publish a similar book?" Anyway I'll go ahead and apologize for whatever it was, even though you have such nasty things to say about me and my hard work. I'm sorry I disappointed you.
If anybody here doesn't hate Seagalogy I hope you continue to not hate the new edition, which comes out April 3rd. It has 11 new chapters, including one on Lawman and ones for each of the UK DVD releases of the True Justice episodes that were put together as movies. It'll be available for Kindle also, if you're into that.
thanks,
Vern
http://www.outlawvern.com
