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Post by shyviolet on Nov 7, 2008 14:36:58 GMT -5
I hated it because the rest of the book was poorly written and extremely poorly thought out, so the epilogue seemed like a big, gratuitous cry of 'Screw you fandom, I stole your ideas and sunk your ships, how do you like me NOW?'
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Post by Cloud Cadet on Nov 7, 2008 17:28:33 GMT -5
'Screw you fandom, I stole your ideas and sunk your ships, how do you like me NOW?' That statement almost makes me like the epilogue more... JKR may have just finally fizzeled out and went, "Screw it, falling rocks- everyone dies." PS. Got that off an icon that I can no longer locate... ).)
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Post by lisajane on Nov 7, 2008 19:13:39 GMT -5
I must admit, despite my annoyance for that epilogue, it doesn't beat my annoyance towards the entire last book of the Twilight series... I'm more than happy to pretend book three was the last one. That had just a horrible ending.
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Post by Cloud Cadet on Nov 8, 2008 15:26:37 GMT -5
This is so weird, I thought Breaking Dawn was the best book she wrote for that series. Unfortunately that doesn't mean it was that good either...
With books it seems like Chris Wooding is all we have in common... so sad.
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Post by zemira on Nov 10, 2008 9:15:38 GMT -5
With books it seems like Chris Wooding is all we have in common... so sad. That just means we all know who the best is. All our second-place authors are different, but at least we all know who deserves our top spot. ;D
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Post by shyviolet on Nov 10, 2008 13:47:04 GMT -5
We have lots of books in common! On the early posts in the 'Literary Preferences' thread we had tonnes of books that we all liked. Twilight and Harry Potter are just very divisive series.
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Post by kaiku on Nov 10, 2008 15:25:33 GMT -5
Twilight and Harry Potter are just very divisive series. With some very scary obsessive fans. (I'm not saying that all Twilight or Harry Potter fans are obsessive, just that the few who are can be quite terrifying.)
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Post by GhostEggplant on Nov 10, 2008 19:44:56 GMT -5
I suggest that everyone here reads George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Then we will have that in common, too. ;D
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Post by Cloud Cadet on Nov 13, 2008 19:42:15 GMT -5
I like Twilight fine, but I do like Harry Potter more. It's very weird that so many people like one and hate the other. I don't know why... My theory is that there's a secret cult we don't know about... At my school there's a girl who's completely obsessed with Harry Potter. She has a Wizard Rock band... (A genre of music completely devoted to Harry Potter...? Why? Why?!) It's not healthy to be that obsessed with something! It's not! She breathes Harry Potter. Any bad words about Harry Potter is blasphemy to her ears. She's also president of the Fantasy Literature club, well, it's supposed to be the Fantasy Literature club. It's really just the Harry Potter club. They even had a birthday party for Harry... I think she's sick. Seriously, that kind of devotion is an illness. She needs to consult with someone in the medical profession. *ahem* Anyway, you're right LJ, I completely forgot about that thread... We should bring it back. George R.R. Martin, huh? I'll look into that.
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Post by lisajane on Nov 13, 2008 20:51:23 GMT -5
I like both Twilight and Harry Potter equally, also love the Harry Potter movies.
The girl at your school Candelighted is a bit... weird.
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Post by Cloud Cadet on Nov 14, 2008 15:51:06 GMT -5
I didn't like the last two Harry Potter movies so much. And she's not just weird, she's a raving lunatic, she really is. A lovable loon, but a loon nonetheless.
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Post by shadowslayer on Dec 2, 2008 21:19:18 GMT -5
if you look at anything and turn some rocks you will find just about eveything
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Post by blackrabbit23 on Mar 1, 2012 15:17:47 GMT -5
When it comes to Kerosene I am still just very impressed that Chris managed to get something published as a teenager. I loved this book when I was younger. I was the kid at school who sat on the steps reading so I associated with it. It was the Deerborn character I struggled with most, he seemed slightly incomplete. As if he was a plot devise that never got finished. But it's the book that got me into reading Wooding so for that I am glad.
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Post by kalcross on Jun 17, 2020 11:45:28 GMT -5
As another of the perennial step-readers, Kerosene was absolutely the first book of his that I ever encountered.
It was a terribly long time ago, but I was a young teenager working at a scholastic book fair, who was quite literally paid in tomes. Kerosene was my favorite of all the Scholastic compensations, however. Moreover, discovering that he was so young when he wrote it just makes me appreciate the memory even more. It is a rather personally and powerfully aspirational work, for me- to only state a couple of the ways it positively impacted me. Will never lose my connection to this book.
You have my utmost appreciation, Chris, for getting me through some of the toughest times imaginable- all without making the roads too burnt, withal.
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