Cpt. Smurf

I see your points, and I appreciate your opinion on the matter, but I'm afraid I don't agree. Before I go on, though, I just want to make it clear ...

Yes, elein... I just want to say, before I get into the rant, that this is no attack on you or your opinions, but that I have a very... "vibrant" ...

I think we analyze things from a writer's standpoint, and that's why most of us don't like him. I agree with you fully, that as writers ourselves, and especially being ...

Plays? I don't think so. We've ruled out fairy tales and epic poems, so I don't think plays would count either. Unless, of course, the play has also been turned ...

Well... *cough* I think it's unfortunate that someone with no real talent has become so successful. It irritates me no-end me that he rips entire world and plot concepts from ...

If you want to be more honest, going by a nickname (not a pseudoname) would be fine. You're not revealing your real name, but you're not lying either. But, I ...

He's probably never heard the word 'foil', in the literary sense. :P

I've only seen the movie, which was an adaption of the musical, which in turn was an adaption of the book, so I can't really comment. All I can say ...

Like I said, I honestly think most people that DID like the books liked them because the characters were well drawn, and were identifiable. That's what I think, anyway. But, ...

I've never really seen what the huge fuss about Sirius is. Nobody missed him in PS and COS. They were good enough. Although perhaps it isn't a coincidence that many ...

The reason it's so unbelievably bad is, mostly, because it's just an imitation of other, better, works. The plot mirrors Star Wars, practically scene for scene, well the world itself ...

Please, PLEASE, for the love of god, put your nominations in the Nominations thread. And if you want Roald Dahl, then nominate him. In the Nominations thread .

The Narnia series just manages to get into the classics nominations, by a year.

I would like to nominate Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Yeah, I'm aware that the book has been branded with the YA label -- something many of us "literaries" look ...

I would like to nominate Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Yeah, I'm aware that the book has been branded with the YA label -- something many of us "literaries" look ...