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You said that creative works should be judged on their own artistic merits, which, to me, implies that they either have, or lack, some sort of objective merit that one can observe and verify. You stated this in disagreement to my saying that all creative works automatically have merit but that...

But then we have a problem. Who does that judging? How is the merit judged? What counts as having merit, and what doesnt? Is it based on what is or isnt commericially successful? If thats the case, than Eragon certainly has merit, and in fact many works of literature that are often considered...

Just bear in mind, everything your saying aplies to you as well. Again, just because you don't like a book, doesnt make it bad, or mud, or worthless. It means you, personally dont like it. Although your need to resort to sarcasm and implied insults to express your opinion isnt terribly...

I'm not really sure why the issue of the danger of sending kids to Hogwarts even comes up, given the physical, emotional and pyschological danger and damage people send their children into in regular, real life school every day. I have yet to meet someone who has come through compulsory...

Hmmm....well, I often enjoy writting styles that other people dont, and I dont mind a bit of long-windness here and there, so I may still give it a try at some point. Thanks for responding.

I think part of it is that Summer seems to be for the action/adventure/drama type stuff, "guy" movies and some "date" movies, and near the holidays seems to be concentrated more towards "family" movies, and many "high fantasy" type stories are often considered "family" movies to varying degrees...

Quality and enjoyment are subjective, but sales are not. We know that trashy romance novels tend to sell well. We know that Stephen King style horror sells well. Of course its always going to be a gamble, but one can choose to try and write within the areas that an agent or publisher tells you...

I think you misunderstand me. I wasnt saying anything about six more years of writting experience. I was saying essentially this: assume the 15 year old and the 21 year old are both just starting, or at least writting their first novel. The 15 year old is just as likely to do just as well as the...

No, its a legitimate taste. You want something "new and different" in everything, and thats fine (although I'm not personally sure that such a thing exists...the stories have all pretty much been told at this point.) However, as at least one other person in this thread has said for themselves...

Now admitedly I havent looked, but the times I've seen the book in stores etc, I havent seen anything even mentioning the author's age, other than the inside cover. And even if it were being used for marketing purposes, it has no impact on the merit of the book. Well, as has been mentioned...

How exactly is that a bad thing? Mind you, I'm just as much in search of new and inventive stuff as the next person who's been reading and watching fantasy/horror/sci fi for years, but that doesnt mean the old ideas arent still great. Personally I think we should be trying to encourage this...

I decided to take a queue from you and do the same thing, once I finish Howl's Moving Castle Is it any good? I've been thinking about aqquiring and reading those. The movie was...odd...but it seems like it'd work better in the original form.

The books themselves are well written, relatively creative and enjoyable. Its Eddings himself, and some of his opinions and attitudes that I have a problem with, especially as expressed in the Rivan Codex. And now that I know those things I see them reflected in the books a lot more, which has...

Read a short story collection called I-O by Simon Logan, what he calls "Industrial Fiction", started and will soon finish "Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wyn Jones

I generally tend to read your usual fantasy/science fiction/horror stuff, Tolkien, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury etc. Medieveal Fantasy, contempory supernatural horror, futuristic science fiction. But I have also become increasingly interested in the "cyberpunk" style, mainly via movies like Blade...

Trying not to repeat anything that's already been mentioned.. The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper Changling/Madwand by Roger Zelazny Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wyn Jones All of Terry Brook's stuff (the various Shannara series, Magic Kingdom of Landover, the Word/Void series.)...

My experience is the oposite. I enjoy the begining...the Song of the Ainur, the descreptions of each of the Valar, and the tales about the earliest days of Arda to be my favorite part. I havent actually completed finished the very last parts, dealing with the Second Age etc, mainly due to the...

Neither Morden nor Clark were under mental/physical control as Anna was. Anna had been used as a core for a shadow vessel, so in essence Anna Sheridan was dead, and it was just her body and memories being used. The crew of the Icarus was given a choice to willingly serve the shadows, or be...

I voted for Bester, Morden and Clark. However, it all depends on what you mean by "best". Bester was probably the best character overall of the ones listed. Morden and Clark were more like pure villains...they were totally selfish and evil. Bester thought of non-telepaths as little more than...

I've seen FLCL and enjoyed it quite a lot. Beneath all the wonderful wackyness its overall "messages" are relatively clear I think. Of course who knows what else there may be in there that I didnt pick up.