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  • Media Reviews Re: Mischief Managed: Saying "Until Next Time" To Harry

    I don't know if it is fitting to review a review, but that was really beautiful. It doesn't matter that I disagree with it almost 100%, did not cry at ...

    Jul 17, 2011
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Acceptable critiquing standards

    The goal, i think we can all agree (maybe?) is to be positive, while constructive. I am guilty of what was being said above; more so in poetry than fiction-- ...

    Jan 8, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Name Me Some Poets!

    Oscar freaking Wilde read Ballad of Reading Gaul and Sphinx also the book Best Poems in the English Language by Harold Bloom hope that helped XD

    Jan 8, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Tips for reviewing poetry?

    Showing instead of telling-- that's pretty huge in poetry. You have to say a lot more with less words, and if you don't try really, really hard to convey the ...

    Jan 5, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: The bells. By Poe.

    Like a lot of Poe's writing, this poem descends into madness and drags you along with. I am humming along with the happy tune of the bells until they are ...

    Jan 3, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Hope is a thing with feathers

    It is a nice poem-- though Emily Dickinson rhymed soul with all, and I despise half-rhymes. Not to be a know-it-all, but it's called Hope is the thing with feathers. ...

    Jan 3, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Looking For A Partner

    I would love to write a novel with someone. I write anything, absoloutely anything, but experimental fiction is fascinating to me. If anyone's interested, pm me!

    Jan 3, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: "Emo" Poetry vs. Good Poetry

    I think we all know that Emo has traveled far from the abbreviation of emotional; that doesn't mean anything in this discussion. And free verse poetry, from what I understand--- ...

    Jan 2, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Strong Bad's take on poetry!

    Oh god that was hilarious. Painfully hilarious. :smt005

    Jan 2, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: My Last Duchess

    This was used in a podcast I listen to as an example of an unreliable narrator; and how the writer masterfully portrays that, instead of having the duchess killed for ...

    Jan 2, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: Amazing Books

    Anything other that Fahrenheit by Ray Bradbury. He writes what I consider the best science-fiction short stories... ever. Medicine for Melancholy Golden Apples of the Sun I sing the body ...

    Jan 1, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: Life Changing Books

    Thanks jessica, I just looked at that website and its looks really, really good-- covers a borad range of topics and everything. :smt001 I would disagree with them in that ...

    Jan 1, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: Life Changing Books

    Strange title but it's the only thing I can think of to describe what I'm talking about. Books that elicit a deep emotional response from me, the reader. Books that ...

    Jan 1, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: Do these even exist?

    Speak by the same person who wrote twisted (author named somewhere above.) I hated Twisted, it seemed so cliche and shallow, the main character was ridiculously depressed for little reason ...

    Jan 1, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Graveyard Book

    Thanks for the review. I went out to buy this book but Barnes and Noble, at least the one near me, has a black abyss for its science fiction and ...

    Jan 1, 2010


I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use".
— Patrick Rothfuss, A Wise Man's Fear