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EVIL!
Topic Started: Jul 30 2006, 07:16 AM (28,866 Views)
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Higher Spirit
Not dark enough for my tastes. Reading Why I killed Gandhi right now. Wonderfully insane.
Shame of the Super Son
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Adele
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Afrit
No matter what, some book is going to be similar to another... almost all the ideas are already taken, so it is hard to come up with a new one, especially with the number of authors 'round.
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Feb 5 2007, 02:43 AM
Making the main character power-hungry politition is pretty original. Especially if it's a fantasy novel.

Exactly.

Most of these things are like mongrels...When I first read Harry Potter (was 12), it felt like a cross between Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton boarding school books. Bartimaeus= Discworld+Real life politics. Stroud says he's read Faust by Marlowe so the demon summoning thing is from there. I could think of equations for half of these things...the truly original ones would be the ones in the equations...haha.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Higher Spirit
Oringinality is dying, everything is simply done.
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It is too hard to think up something new, without some part of it being similar to another book.
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Ghul
What's the title of the third book? :hmm:
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Nothing But The Rain

Not been confirmed as far as I know, but the smart money is on Empire.
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yeah thats what I was told too.
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Yakaii
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Ghul
Yup I understood ^^
Any other information about it? :magic:
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Higher Spirit
It'll suck?
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Yakaii
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Ghul
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You will say it sucks. I know. :D
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Higher Spirit
It'll suck very, very bad?
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Hah I knew. xD
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Higher Spirit
And we reach an agreement.
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I should probably ask Mom what the release date is, so I have fair warning to lock myself in my room until the rant of mob of idiots who love it is over.
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


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:mouth: Oh, Canada...
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