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[Tak-Jak]

Nix and Machiavelli?! I love you already. Dibs. biggrin  

[Chrysanthemum Moon]

To Shialee:

heart heart heart heart LOL! (that means lots of love heart !)

To Darak:

I keep wanting to spell your name Derek.... And how can you say no one knows Nix and Machiavelli? They sit right it front of my bookshelf for five years and I will never move them from that place.  

[Darak]

When most people I know hear me talk about Machiavelli and Nix they just stare at me blankly and say they like more mainstream books like Harry Potter or, god forbid, Twilight. Anyway, its good to know most people here are familiar with their work, both the books are very influential in my work. As you should see when I get my Thread up...  

[Tak-Jak]

You will find my works based mainly around Greek myth.

But most of my all time favorite authors are less than the main stream and more of the literature stream.  

[Chrysanthemum Moon]

Mainstream authors have to cater to the general population's tastes, and, unfortunately, the general population is not a smart population.

Poe and Vonnegut seems to be my muses at the moment. Before it was surrealism art.  

[Tak-Jak]

I heart Kurt.  

[Serenity Reed]

Darak

Well I'm off to get a threat started for my stories in the Work in Progress

lulz. Let me have this moment. rofl  

[lakita_phoenix]

x___S h i a l e e

lakita_phoenix

Wait....so I don't have dibs on anyone? And no one has dibs on me?
WOO-HOO!
That means I'm single! I can walk around naked! (random)

no one has dibs on you?! A conspiracy! You're mine ninja

But aren't you newer than me?
That doesn't make sens...
...But I wanna run without any pants on... crying
You crushed a little girl's (actually I'm like 5'11", so not very little) dreams! crying

 

[Darak]

Serenity Reed

Darak

Well I'm off to get a threat started for my stories in the Work in Progress

lulz. Let me have this moment. rofl

Damn it! I hate it when I miss mistakes like that!  

[KirbyVictorious]

Hiii Darak. 'S cool that you like the classics, but there's really nothign wrong with mainstream. It's not so much that the authors cater to the public tastes as they just write their book and everybody happens to like it. Usually they become mainstream not because they're for stupid people, but because the writing is simple and the intrigue relies mainly on the plot. Any finesse in other areas aside from plot is wasted in a mainstream book. Like Bella's development of character, even if it was really weird, and JKRowling's supreme talent for making every major and minor character stand out, seem real, and somehow become important to the reader.

I love all books so it upsets me when people don't like one for no real reason, or when they stereotype. Everyone has a story and they must write it--whose book is made popular or not is dependant on too much to generalize. And whose book is published is an ENTIRELY different story X.x scream scream scream scream scream scream scream

And hellos to all the other new people. Jeez. Do you guys ever stop breeding or what? :XP:  

[Tak-Jak]

I agree with Kirby, but didn't find it important enough to vocalize.
Opinions are Opinions... and Even that is an Opinion.  

[Darak]

KirbyVictorious

Hiii Darak. 'S cool that you like the classics, but there's really nothign wrong with mainstream. It's not so much that the authors cater to the public tastes as they just write their book and everybody happens to like it. Usually they become mainstream not because they're for stupid people, but because the writing is simple and the intrigue relies mainly on the plot. Any finesse in other areas aside from plot is wasted in a mainstream book. Like Bella's development of character, even if it was really weird, and JKRowling's supreme talent for making every major and minor character stand out, seem real, and somehow become important to the reader.

I love all books so it upsets me when people don't like one for no real reason, or when they stereotype. Everyone has a story and they must write it--whose book is made popular or not is dependant on too much to generalize. And whose book is published is an ENTIRELY different story X.x scream scream scream scream scream scream scream

And hellos to all the other new people. Jeez. Do you guys ever stop breeding or what? :XP:

Its not that I am generalizing books or hate them because they are specifically mainstream. I have read a lot of mainstream stuff, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Christopher Buckley, Douglas Adams and others who I like alot. When I dislike a book or author it is because of their message, or because I believe them to be uninspired, or because the writing is generally bad, or the plot is atrocious, or the characters are idiotic to a level that they deserve to be thrown in a burlap sack and beaten with a stick and then tossed in a river. For reference I see the Twilight to be the best example of everything I hate in the literary world in fiction, for Non-fiction look up anything put on paper by Ann Coulter

I personally don't believe in hating something or someone unless they give you a reason for doing so and I don't believe in loving something or someone unless they give you a reason so, if you did so, then you would be a extreme generalization and that is a bad thing  

[Tak-Jak]

After this, I would like you both (if you wish) to continue this discussion in the previously made thread in the Book/Writing discussion forum.

Just because, such discussions have a tendency to heat up and this is not the proper place for it.  

[Serenity Reed]

Douglas Adams= heart

And I agree with Kirby.  

[lakita_phoenix]

I am so lost right now...should have left a trail of bread crumbs...
which reminds me to post my work in progress (it's only in progress because I haven't found a publisher I can meet to submit it; but tell me what you think if you get the chance to read it!) 4laugh sweatdrop