[ SECRET POST #3479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3479 ⌋

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

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[Lifetime's UnReal]


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[X-Men movies. Charles/Erik]


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[Andrew Zimmern vs. Anthony Bourdain]


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[Secretary]


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[Stardew Valley]


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[Notre Dame de Paris (French Musical)]


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[Erma]













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Comments

Re: Dumbest mistakes about a piece of fiction you've ever seen

[feotakahari]

I'm going to toss David Brin your way, just to see how angry he makes you: http://archive.is/UqM7H (In all honesty, I can't say I 100% disagree with Brin, if only because Tolkien was such a huge influence on series like Dragonlance that embody everything Brin's talking about.)

Re: Dumbest mistakes about a piece of fiction you've ever seen

[philstar22]

Well, reading this, I don't agree with most of it, or at least, I agree with some of the things he says as real life concepts but I don't see the lack of them as a weakness in Tolkien's writing. But I do respect his opinion. I think he's at least actually read Tolkien and is coming from a place of someone who knows what he is talking about even if I don't necessarily agree with his critique.

Re: Dumbest mistakes about a piece of fiction you've ever seen

[philippos42]

I have liked some of David Brin's writing, but what I could find of that (the links seem broken) was a bit offensive: The modernist sneering at the past, which he lumps together as one giant feudalized cacophony.

It reminds me of the young'uns we find online now that think that any part of the Twentieth Century must have been so, so backward because it was Olden Times; just of an older generation.

I'm rethinking my opinion of Brin now.

Re: Dumbest mistakes about a piece of fiction you've ever seen

[philstar22]

That's what I got from the essay. Like, his points make sense for modern fiction. But he's dismissing anything that isn't modern and doesn't fit his ideas of the way things should be. And that is what I disagree with.

Re: Dumbest mistakes about a piece of fiction you've ever seen

[feotakahari]

Brin doesn't always show it, but he is one of those folks who thinks people who disagree with him aren't as smart as him or haven't spent as much time thinking as he has. I'm still pissed off by the way he treated religious belief as a natural part of observing the world and seeing the truth in the Uplift series.