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⌈ Secret Post #2465 ⌋

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Doonesbury, O Human Star]

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[Two of a Kind]

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[Cleopatra/Elizabeth Taylor]

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[The Final Descent by Rick Yancey]

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[Attack on Titan]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Whitechapel]

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[Outlast]

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I don't really agree with it being about trendiness and hype, but yeah, when I look back on the books, some of the characterisation and plot does seem kind of weak and the writing style makes me laugh aloud at parts I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to find amusing. And the world-building is really weak in places. They're still very good books though! It's a good classical story. I'd still read it to my kids.

Maybe it depends on where you lived and such, but it sure as hell was trendy over here. Whenever I'd say that I didn't follow the series, the response was always something along the lines of "But everyone reads them! It's the in thing!". Parents would stand in lines with their offspring on the release dates, because if the kids didn't keep up with the series they'd get teased in school for not being cool enough.

Wow, seriously? I was living in Malaysia for most of the releases, so I guess that's why I never really thought of it as something that people got into only because it was popular. That's kind of sad about kids getting teased for not reading them - I remember being teased for waiting up to read them.

"But everyone reads them! It's the in thing!".

I hate that. I want to go, "no, not everyone reads/watches/listens to it. I don't."

"But everyone reads them! It's the in thing!"

if there was ever anything so calculated to make me not want to read a series...

I knew they weren't technically great books at the time, but there was just something about them. The prose just clicked with me in a way that I have tried and failed to analyze.

Yeah, I agree with this. I saw lots of writing flaws, and certainly "adolescent discovers magical abilities" isn't the world's most original plot... but they clicked with me somehow, and I guess they clicked with a lot of other people.

But I see where people might get sick of hearing about it all the time and having everyone assume they must be reading it.

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