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Personal stakes! Yes, that's an excellent one. And I think even if some of the stakes are huge--the world is going to end!--there can still be personal factors. The world is going to end, and we have...
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I like multi-faceted characters with real lives (like interests, relationships, demands on their time and effort independent of the immediate plotline). I prefer adult characters to children or teen...
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interesting characters facing interesting choices and doing interesting things.
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I think it doesn't matter what genre I'm reading, I look for the same thing - characters, setting [preferably not medieval, but truthfully that really doesn't matter if everything else is solidly in...
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Realistic and well-thought-out consequences. I don't just mean for the characters--I mean for the world. If Country X has a despotic monarchy, why? How do they support their armies? How do they keep...
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I want escapism, first off, plain and simple. I can handle a certain amount of dark and sad (hey, I'm a Silmarillion fan and you have to like sad if you like that) but there has to be a balance of...
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lolz In some ways I think you can be more honest here, because no one can see your face. I'm not the weepy type, and I hate it if other people see me cry (which is why don't like sappy movies at all)...
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[quote=Plastdrage] I haven't read this whole conversation, so I'm sorry if it's already been said, but The Girl Wit the Dragon Tattoo is a trology (Or maybe it's four, I've only read three, I think the...
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I haven't read this whole conversation, so I'm sorry if it's already been said, but The Girl Wit the Dragon Tattoo is a trology (Or maybe it's four, I've only read three, I think the author died before...
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I'm sure that we would! People tell me that I'm very different "in real life". Cause the intarwebz is fake, yo. :D I don't think that being friends is about having the same opinions on things. I think...
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You're right we do, like I can't watch anything where in the end the dog dies because I really love dogs. >.< (Marley & Me was horrible for that reason.) With family things I get weirded out...
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Well, you know, we see things through the lens of our experiences. I think he could have easily fished for a living and then not only have had his family, but his sea, too. I think him sleeping with...
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Wow, I never thought of it that way, to me the ending in Waterworld was the Mariner after helping the people he grew close to find dry land he returned to the ocean because that's where he belongs. He...
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[quote=Dahlia Legacy] Ok like logically I had some issues with Waterworld, like how can that much water show up? Even if all the polar icecaps did melt we'd still have dry land, it isn't enough to...
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Ok like logically I had some issues with Waterworld, like how can that much water show up? Even if all the polar icecaps did melt we'd still have dry land, it isn't enough to cover it all up. That and...
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Yeah, it seems like everyone liked it but me. I didn't find the ending positive at all. If anything, I found the ending as offensive and disgusting as the Waterworld ending, which I loathe. You're...
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funny you mention that; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was one of the few serious movies I've watched in the past few years with a positive ending that didn't try to outdo itself being artsy.
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lol XD My mom just told me I can describe things well I just can't explain how to do things, and that if I ever wrote a how to guide the people reading it would be suicidal. XD It's a good thing I...
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I don't know how you write, but for me description is one of the things that is most telling about how well a person can write. Because if it's done well, pages and pages of description can be...
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Well people will either like descriptions of things, or not read my books. XD If I had to strip down my language to the nuts and bolts of A did this then B did this it would bore me to tears. I'm only...
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