Subject: Well...
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Posted on: 2010-01-14 18:21:00 UTC
I don't care much for Twilight, mainly for the "Sparkly Vampires" thing, which, as a fan of supernatural things really ticks me off. And the purple prose, Mary Sue characters and genererl mistreatment of females.
But I haven't read the novels themselves, so maybe I shouldn't complain...
You know what? I happen know someone who has all the books, so I'll read those and THEN judge the series!
I have a confession to make. I... I actually like the Inheritance Cycle. Yes, the one with Eragon. Does.... does this make me a bad person?
Well, I like pretty much anything with dragons in it, so the first book was okay. I haven't got into the rest of the series, though, and I doubt I ever really will.
You know what? You're not the only one.
I like the Inheritance Cycle, too, and have even written a little something about the dragons of that continuum. It's clichéd and everything, but still a nice story. And has decent grammar.
I liked it too. You're never a bad person just for liking something.
Unless it's Nazis, of course, but that's beside the point.
I don't think opinions can totally *make* someone a bad person or not. It's how you treat others whose opinions differ that counts.
Even if other people don't.
Hell, I see it as a good thing - there's *bound* to be Inheritance Cycle badfic out there, right? And so far none of us has taken it on. You can therefore one day boldly go where no PPC member has gone before :)
Well, that makes me happy!
(I don't like the Inheritance Cycle. I read the first two books and got so angry at all the geological fail I couldn't bring myself to read the other two. But I equally don't like the idea that the PPC could decide that any given canon 'doesn't count' and doesn't get our protection. So yay Inheritance Cycle PPC :D )
I was led to the webcomic "Jack" by a bad review, and still agree with several of the points from it (all the ones which *didn't* blatantly show that the critic hadn't actually read more than about three pages, which he clearly hadn't, but still made one or two valid points - why the heck DID that kid randomly bring a gun to school with him on the day the other kid just happened to go on a killing spree?), but grew to like it anyway. I like it when that happens because then I don't get defensive when people criticise it ^_^
He's established to be a kid, which would make being an undercover police officer rather unlikely. That said...
Before the late 1980s (and even more so before the mid-1960s), having firearms inside schools in the United States was not as unusual a situation as it is today. For a while there were still rural schools where, during hunting season, it was not unusual to simply have rifles carried around in the halls and stored in lockers during classes, and today those same areas will often have high school students simply store them in car trunks in the parking lot. One discussion of such is available here, if I got my link formatting right. It's currently unlawful in nearly all situations, but that doesn't necessarily stop people from doing it. Joel Myrick's 1997 actions would be one example of this.
Some rural (and rare suburban) schools also have have rifle teams, both air rifle and .22s. These are steadily being scaled down or outright removed, but you can find them places where they'd not be expected still. While the firearms here technically must be locked up pretty well or constantly supervised, the situation in the second arc would probably cause most people to reconsider. There are also occasionally trusted students who... ahem... 'accidentally' get access to the key or combination to these firearms.
It's still a pretty decent level of improbability, but not a matter of complete randomness.
It's hard to tell the ages on anthros sometimes...
Don't really recall, though.
You know what? I read the comic and though that was strange...
I still like 'Jack', mainly because it's well, interesting. Sure, there are a few things about it that are confusing, but art's good, the religous undertones (this IS a comic about Heaven and Hell, after all), aren't forced onto the reader, and if you're like me, you'll enjoy seeing the bad guys get their comuppance.
Nah its fine, the worst you'll hear is people bemoaning it.
I like the first Book of Inheritance but when the second came out it was like... he was trying too hard.
And with Twilight I was sucked into THAT little whirlpool of obsession until I read Breaking dawn. And then I said 'what was I thinking' and moved on. Thankfully I only purchased the books and not any merchandise. my Twilight books now reside in the Attic never to be touched again. The Twilight movie (haven't seen 2) only cemented that fact.
It was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Almost as good (or bad, I suppose) as Clash of the Titans. Haven't seen New Moon, though.
--anamia
But it brought out the WORST parts of the book. It was like it was done by guys holding up card-board cut-outs of the actors. In fact the acting might have been done better if it HAD been done by card-board cut-outs. But the riff-trax (same guys who did MST3K) of it was brilliant. Worth the $4.
I liked the first one reasonably well. Could barely get through the second, but I liked the first.
Not in my mind. I like it, even if I don't think that it's at all a shining example of literature.
I too read and tolerated Twilight. Well, up until the release of Breaking Dawn, after which point I examined them again and decided that I had better things to squee over in my spare time. But I still enjoy twisting the characters until they break (have I mentioned anywhere yet that I'm a sadistic author?), which, for me, is a mark of affection. If we can like Twilight, you can like Eragon. 'Sides, someone has to agree to work in that canon, and you seem to be the only candidate.
--anamia
Ah, that's all right - it happens. Besides, now you have a mini-me to contend with. :P
I read the Twilight books, and I do not hate them. I don't exactly like them either - I don't like the two main characters or the love story, which is the bulk of the story, but I like other aspects.
The good thing about the PPC - and it's mentioned on the Constitution - is that we're not going to exile anyone for liking things we don't, though I'm afraid you will have to put up with others complaining about those books. Sorry about that.
I don't care much for Twilight, mainly for the "Sparkly Vampires" thing, which, as a fan of supernatural things really ticks me off. And the purple prose, Mary Sue characters and genererl mistreatment of females.
But I haven't read the novels themselves, so maybe I shouldn't complain...
You know what? I happen know someone who has all the books, so I'll read those and THEN judge the series!