Eventually I may come up with lists on things that please me. Until then, you’re stuck with this. You’re welcome.
♣ This could just be me; hell, everything could just be me. I find it pompous that when someone is using slightly silly examples on a topic such as literature to show how it seems to have degraded over the centuries, you have to point out that the examples are beneath the topic. So I chose Twilight, Hunger Games and 50 Shades. Does it matter that the authors of Twilight and 50 Shades are not “trained in the field” of writing? Does it matter that Hunger Games is a Scholastic, Inc. book made for young adults? No. Why? Because my point was that these popular series are what’s being put out by mainstream. Gone are authors like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Harper Lee, etc. Literature has become all about pop-lit. Where did the art and intelligence go? Understand I am talking mainstream here, I know there are fantastic authors out there that are probably being smothered by the garbage coming out.
♣ Tell me it’d be best for me to change my stance on gun laws with only the reason that England has ¼ the homicide rate that America has. Don’t bother linking any actual data. This may or may not make a difference, but has it occurred to you that England is roughly ¼ of the size of America? Plus if you really want to break it down the percentage of guns used in our homicide rate, it is significantly low compared to other means.
♣ Tell an inmate on death row that you don’t believe humans should be executed. How, again, do you think he got on death row?
♣ Blame everyone for everything wrong in your life. You’re 32, what you suffer has everything to do with your choices as an adult. Especially talk a lot of smack about the person who’s done nothing but bend over backwards for you.
/End Rant.
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I would read To kill a mockingbird over Fifty shades any day..though I did actually enjoy the Hunger Games.
Yeah, I am hearing people liking that series. I don’t think Harry Potter is so bad really. Yet, just as we’ve lost true politicians, I feel we have lost true writers. Everything has gone down hill. Filmmaking, music production, books, media & news, politicians, comedians… where did quality go?
It seems to me that music has gone down the drain as well. Do you think they will be talking about Adam Lambert twenty years from now? No. The sign of the times. It’s all sugarcoated to go down easy.
Jane Austen style, baby.
I liked Hunger Games okay. It’s been a while since I read it. At least the heroine was not an empty-headed twit. This girl had a goal – uh, to live. That’s more than Bella at least. And no one sparkled. And it wasn’t a rip off of Twilight either. Wow, I just realized it’s come to defending books on them not being as bad as other books. You may have a point there.
True… Everything you write is true. I think I was nodding my head with every point; except maybe the gun laws. But, I’m not American so I don’t know all the details.
My point was if you’re going to suggest I change my view on something, don’t make a “factual” statement without a source. It’d be one thing to say, “I disagree with you because…”, but to “suggest” to me to change how I feel or think about it and not have any backup… malarkey.
Also, i read 50 shades because I needed to see what the hype was all about. I didn’t like them. I couldn’t get past the first 20 pages of hunger games without being bored. I won’t touch Twilight. I have standards.
I read the Twilight series when it first came out… I can’t lie and say I hated them. That is all.
Not a single point to argue with on this post. Love it.