[ SECRET POST #201 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #201 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 055 secrets from Secret Submission Post #029.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, July 26th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

#7, #26

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

#7, the writing is even worse in Book 7. I don't think her writing style was ever phenomonal or anything. It's written as a children's book, which is part of the why for bad writing. It's certainly no excuse to be doing it, but that's how it is.

#26, I don't think it's a stupid reason when you explain it that way. Sometimes we need something outside to remind us how important something is to us. :)

Re: #7, #26

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

7)...what?

No really I'm not going to argue with you on if HP is good or bad, but to say that childrens stories should have bad writing is just... Stupid and frankly insulting to the people who write for children and the fantastic books written for children.

Re: #7, #26

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that children's stories have bad writing. :/ If that's what it seemed like, I apologize. In fact, at the end of my paragraph I said that just because it was a children's story was no excuse for bad writing.

Re: #7, #26

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Ah then I misread it. Sorry.

Re: #7, #26

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

No, that's my fault. I didn't choose my words correctly. Now who's guilty of bad writing, eh? ;)

Re: #7, #26

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I may have also jumped the gun! I'm not in the best mood today.

Re: #7, #26

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

It's written as a children's book, which is part of the why for bad writing.

Please allow me to clarify. What I meant is that it may seem like bad writing from an older person's point of view (or for somebody who is used to reading 'adult' books) because of syntactical structure and word choice. It doesn't make it bad writing, but if somebody is used to a certain grade level of reading, it can certainly inhibit ones enjoyment of the work.

Re: #7, #26

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Ah okay - I can understand that.

Re: #7, #26

[planecrashdream.livejournal.com]

I completely agree w/ you. With everything you've said about the books. I think they are decently written, but they are children's books, and as such, like you said, will never have the complexity that we long for as adults really.

But I think C.S. Lewis > J.K. Rowling. By miles. And he was writing children's books, too.

Re: #7, #26

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

I find that Rowling's work is different than Lewis's though. Lewis was written to be read aloud to children. While the first few books in Rowling's work reflects this same aspect, the later books don't. -I haven't read all of the Narnia series though, so I could be wrong, his books may do the same thing-. :)