A gripe from one literary writer to another...

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I personally wear two socks. Zip then fasten.

Although I'd imagine my characters would be barefooted and possibly even naked :D
 
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All this thread really needed was sparkles. Poor little thread...
 

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He looks like ZOMBIEDOG (and he isn't happy....)

And nothankyouMedihedoesn'tneedsparkles.....
 

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Sometimes, books let you down. But that same book will be ZOMG WONDERFUL to someone else. For instance me and SP there have very differing views on the Book Thief. Doesn't mean it's a bad book or a good book - it means, as always, no one book can be for everyone. Thta goes for lit fic as well as any other genre.

oooh, intriguing! Who loved it, who hated it? I need to know which of you is my friend!:)

Pretentious. I think that sums up how I feel about this particular book and the main character.
Won't you PM me the title? Please?

This thread has run its course. It is a defunct thread.

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This thread should have been written with a thesaurus to hand; the language lacks scholarship, and its obviously been written by genre writers (ducks and runs).
 

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This thread should have been written with a thesaurus to hand; the language lacks scholarship, and its obviously been written by genre writers (ducks and runs).

Let's be honest, people. We all know that if it were any damn good at all, the novel in the OP would be in Middle English.

Amiwrite?
 

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Let's be honest, people. We all know that if it were any damn good at all, the novel in the OP would be in Middle English.

Sounds like a sure-fire best-selling strategy to me! (Except for the ME part...)
 

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Is Middle English what they speak in Middle England? Not sure that would be my thing.
 

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Upper English is posh, think upper crust.

Middle English is what the proletariat speaks.

Cockney is the lower English, but even that is better than American.
 

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*whew* I'm so glad I read this! I thought for sure that Middle English was the English used in middle grade novels.
 

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I will never let this thread die. I check everyday for an unambiguous ending.
 

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I will never let this thread die. I check everyday for an unambiguous ending.

One could come about it we just thought deeply about Plotless novels.

Yes, we've all heard that one: literary is just writerly masturbation with plotless stories, a bunch of words...
 

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One thing is for sure, the novel in question didn't have zombies in it.
And personally, I await the great literary-with-zombies-in-it novel.

(For it to work, the zombies would need to be just incidental characters.)
 
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