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Universal Studio's new film in November: Ender's Game
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Why would anyone interpret the story this way? One guy in the Ender universe feels this way and justifies the xenocide so that he can repeat it. He is the bad guy at the end of the series.
There is a difference between 'haters gonna hate' and wondering if people are letting their dislike for an author colour their opinion of his works, regardless of whether they are right or wrong about it. This is a very real thing that people do actually do with all sorts of things. There is a reason the expression 'separate the author from the works' is something you see pop up every so often in such discussions.
To hear a criticism like that, and simply claim it is 'haters gonna hate' is pretty silly and dismissive. It the criticism always accurate for every person ever? No, probably not! But that does not make it any less of a valid thing to propose, and to simply push it away as some sort of dismissing attitude? I think that is in and of itself dismissing someone's argument without really considering it.
There are things in the text that back up the interpretations people in this thread have. They have something to point to justify why they think what they think.
Your response to that is to guess at people's motivations, with literally nothing concrete to back it up. Which, yeah, I'm gonna dismiss, because I don't know any of the "people" you anecdotally refer to.
You're saying one of two things. "People in this thread are only leveling these criticisms because they don't like Card," which is insulting to the analytic and interpretive abilities of a whole lot of people you don't know and have never met, because it's saying that those skills are colored by their personal prejudices and they are incapable of transcending them when examining a work. It is to call them petty, small, and vindictive, and it's rude as hell.
OR you're saying, "People elsewhere level criticisms at Ender's Game because they don't like Card," which is completely irrelevant to our discussions, since we aren't those people, and it's not worth even mentioning.
Basically, you're either being a dick, or posting irrelevant fluff.
Were you the one who referred to Hunger Games as being a YA novel with good prose?
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You know, to have this whole conversation be derived from a small sentence that started with "It feels" and was a rather general statement is sort of weird to me.
I'm not trying to level that saber at anyone in particular, it was just an observation I made in a very general sense. Since then I've just been trying to justify the observation as having some grounding in truth in regards to someone after having that dismissed as something that can apparently never happen.
It's inhuman to be so objective that you can derive the same amount of enjoyment from something you hate versus something you like, and it's unfair to ask normal people to meet that standard.
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the first one is
the first one only
I should've narrowed it down to Mockingjay, 'cause yeah, the first two are workmanlike at best.
But Mockingjay's is quite solid.
The first one barely.
The second and third are just...horrible prose.
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Nah
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I literally just said that I'd only make the claim about the third.
Like three posts above your post.
No wonder you don't think it's good prose, you're clearly illiterate
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Well, duh
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Pratchett is just the best writer
True Story: The third Hunger Games book is the only book I've ever put down without finishing. Ever.
I dunno, man, have you ever heard of a fella by the name of John Grisham?
he that guy what writes them sandra bullack movies?
Who writes the best civil war yarns, toastmaster's joke collections, and Matlock novelizations for Gramps?
as is columbo
whoa who is in here biting my style
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Maybe it will wind up being anything that is intentionally made into a paperback.
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ok one night in basic i volunteered to pull all night door guard duty in exchange for not having to do KP the next day
i read the entirety of the pelican brief over the course of eight hours in a desperate bid to stay awake
i still do not understand why people were freaking out over it or why pelicans were involved
I remember quite enjoying The Pelican Brief, but the movie was dumb. It's like the people who made it didn't bother to do even 5 minutes of research about New Orleans. Sadness.
Edit: I feel the need to say that I don't consider Grisham novels to be high lit, or even good lit. They're enjoyable pulp thrillers, and sometimes that's a good thing.
I thought the first half was pretty good but yeah everything after the mission started kind of felt rushed.
you misspelled Diana Wynne Jones
So you think the third book has good prose.
But the first doesn't?
I cannot even fathom this opinion. I cannot wrap my head around this statement. I'm dead, pooro. You killed me.
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"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus