[ SECRET POST #3299 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3299 ⌋

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

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[Animaniacs]


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[The Heroic Legend of Arslan]


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08. [SPOILERS for The Force Awakens]





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10. [SPOILERS for Steven Universe]





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11. [WARNING for rape]





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12. [WARNING for rape]





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13. [WARNING for possible child abuse?]





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14. [WARNING for rape]





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15. [WARNING for suicide]





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16. [WARNING for underage incest]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #471.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Blanked out. Not "blacked out".

To be honest, I'd look askance at someone who cited Rowling as their favorite author unless they were fairly young... early to mid 20s, minimum, and even then I'd wonder. The series finished almost a decade ago, and you really haven't read anything you liked better since? Wow... I'd wonder if it was a sign they weren't big readers or were somewhat immature in their tastes. The older the interviewee, the worse it looks.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm thirty-one, an English major, and I read at least two dozen books a year.

JK Rowling is my favorite author and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my favorite book. No I haven't read anything I've liked better since then, though I've read many great books (both YA and adult).

Rowling's books will stand the test of time and be considered classics decades from now, on par with Dickens (who was similarly popular among the masses and decried to be less than intellectual by critics when he was around) and the like. Will you still be snobby about people having her as their fave then? This absolutely will happen too. I'd stake my non-existent powerball winnings on it.

[ayumidah]

Yep. Although bits of Deathly Hallows made me side eye some, I adore JK and the Harry Potter universe, she's my greatest inspiration to becoming an author and I'm 28, so...

[tree_and_leaf]

My guess is that the interviewer had made up their mind to hire them, was chit-chatting to fill in the time, and didn't much care one way or another. I can't imagine what job it would be truly relevant to - except, say, literary journalism - and in that case the OP wouldn't have been blindsided by it coming up.

[hiyami]

Even without knowing that OP blanked out at being asked that, I would not be too judgemental about that answer to the question.
You don't know the context. Unless OP was going for a job in a literary field, JKR is a fairly innocuous answer. As others pointed out, her novels are imaginative, successful, and unlike 50 Shades the style isn't horrendous.

I work in a non-literary but brain-oriented field, and half of the people I work with probably think of me as a bit of a snob for like art exhibitions. While half of the rest also like museums.

Also, if I was asked who my favorite author is, I'd probably say Terry Pratchett, mostly because he's the only author I didn't get bored with after 3 or 4 books.
It doesn't mean I haven't read books that were really good. It just means that I get bored easily, time is not unlimited, and when authors tend to write about the same thing I lose interest.

The question was not "Who do you think is the best writer who ever existed?", it's "who's your favorite writer?". You can enjoy books without thinking they're the best of the world, it just means they fit what you want or need to read at the moment.