[ SECRET POST #269 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #269 ⌋

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1. The F!S Friending Meme! Go do it! I am totally open to friending. (:
2. Have some emopuppy in a fish tank!
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Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 168 secrets from Secret Submission Post #039.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken link, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

#7-related: lol@everyone in comments going "zomg HDM > HP, they're not even on the same level, stfu noob!" YES THEY ARE ON THE SAME LEVEL. Childrens' book = childrens' book. You fail at literary elitism.

[luisa-f.livejournal.com]

IAWTC so fucking much, just as HP is corny in places and can get more than a bit cheesy at times, so does HDM, there are parts like with the mulefa when it's painfully obvious that it is a children series.

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

Everything of a certain genre is not of the same quality.

[sir-mocha.livejournal.com]

So you're saying that a children's book like Goodnight Moon is equivalent to a children's book like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? They must be of literary equivalency; they were both written for children, after all.

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

...I wouldn't consider Huckleberry Finn a children's book, despite having a young protagonist. But then, I base what age group a book is targeting by how easy to read the material is, and Huck Finn can be extremely difficult.

[jillianetcetera.livejournal.com]

Literary elitism? Christ, who is failing? I didn't know it was "elite" to bundle specific genres into one fagot to be burnt without a thought. As another person commented, there are broad differences in any literary realm. Alice in Wonderland is a children's book, as is Captain Underpants. Not to say the discrepancies are always that major, but it is a bit silly to act like a snoot when you're saying something without foundation. No offense intended, of course, but go read some more books and develop a higher taste rather than making pointless insulting remarks as if you were, as a child of the late nineties might say, "all dat."

[jillianetcetera.livejournal.com]

Though perhaps you might have a fine taste, which just makes it mean of you to pick on people holding forth as they will. Be sweet. I love the Potter, I love the HDM, but they are a bit different. Neither is the deepest stuff about, but they provide a different sensation to the palate, though they are close in genre. I think it takes a real elitist not to judge based on the material itself, but on what the reader gets of it. A slob can drink fine wine and it is wasted on a dead mouth, and a true aesthete can find joy in Wild Irish Rose.

But I'm rambling.

[xenoglossy]

Personally, I think that both series are somewhat overrated, but that said, not all children's books are of the exact same quality. Some are certainly better-written than others.

[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

.. soo..

To make a slightly different comparison. Clifford the Big Red Dog is on the same level as, say, Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series? They're children's books all.




you fail at everything, gtfo.

[enjolras.livejournal.com]

....

OKAY. THIS COMMENT WINS EVERYTHING. ♥

[nightfalltwen.livejournal.com]

Duh. Clifford pwns at everything.





Meant in a jesting tone of course :D

[aetheristic.livejournal.com]

*claps*

Anyway, as a below commenter said, HDM can quite often be found in adult sections of bookstores. And so can that Stephanie Meyer book - my sister is reading them at the moment and is obsessed lol so I had to pick one up for her. XD;

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. And that would be why HP is actually in the children's section, while HDM is almost always in the adult fantasy/sci-fi section. Look it up. Do some fucking research before making a stupid-ass statement like that.