[ SECRET POST #3234 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Controversial Opinions

[philstar22]

I wouldn't say i can't stand him, but while I loved his stuff as a kid I don't anymore. I don't like his writing style at all and his hamfisted allegory doesn't work for me (I feel the same way about Pullman, I only like author tract stuff when it is subtle and woven into the world rather than slammed in reader's faces).

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Pullman's author tract stuff bothers me as much as it does with Lewis, but I think he's more enjoyable purely as a writer once you set that aside.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[philstar22]

I agree with that. I liked Pullman's first two books quite a bit. It was just the third one that became more about author tract than telling the story. Lewis's books are clearly for children and while I enjoyed them when I was in the right age group, once I grew up and tried to reread them there was just no substance there. No character, no depth, nothing but allegory and a rather boring, half-assed worldbuilding.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[sarillia]

It's kind of weird to see you say that his books are for kids since I'm more familiar with his religious and other non-fiction writings than his fiction. Although my favorite thing he wrote is The Screwtape Letters.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I've read both his children's fiction and his other work & I'm equally annoyed by both.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[philstar22]

I meant Narnia specifically. But even in his other stuff the writing style is very child-like to me. Even when the subject is more adult, the writing style is still more the style for childrens books.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Really? IDK about Lewis's other writings for adults, but I would never describe his Space Trilogy as child-like. Quite the opposite, in fact; I found it rather dry, almost to the point of reading like a textbook in some parts. (The second half of Perelandra is especially guilty of this.)

Re: Controversial Opinions

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I would go as far as to say I cannot stand reading Narnia anymore, but I did have a similar experience as you when I read it again, around when the Disney LWW movie came out. That was also around the time I read The Hobbit, so I had the comparision of two writers well-known for being friends.

I also feel, especially when compared to The Hobbit, that Narnia comes over rather condescending.