09-19-2012, 02:52 PM | #31 |
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09-19-2012, 03:08 PM | #32 |
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How else am I gonna know what the kids are calling it these days?
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09-20-2012, 06:07 PM | #33 |
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Reality is nice, but it is not enough action. Boring.
Good fiction is reality, when you look under the surface, only with most of the boring parts left out. Efficiency rules!!! Using fiction you can live, learn and experience a lot more. What is not to like about that? |
09-25-2012, 05:08 AM | #34 |
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09-25-2012, 06:35 AM | #35 |
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I see enough reality in the news. I love reading something creative.
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09-25-2012, 06:38 AM | #36 |
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It has been integral part of any culture for long time. Probably it's more hard-wired than just culture(evolution maybe?), as it's excellent way to share information and pass down the history... Cultural, social and maybe evolutionary reasons...
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09-25-2012, 11:13 AM | #37 | |
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To me, that's the difference between high literature classics and in-your-face-best-sellers: the high skilled mastery of language. I'm not talking about abusing baroque constructs or being too dense, just about giving the language the proper art treatment. In the hands of a skilled story teller, any trivial story is great. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/donne/1014/ it's the skill of the story-teller that makes it shine. |
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I have read books with great plot ideas where the narrative seemed to go on and on, well past it's sell by date. Then I have read books where the plot seems trivial, but that make me laugh out loud, or even on occasion learn something. Most books I read, you are pretty sure the good guys will prevail and often enough who the bad guys are. The value for me is usually not in the jouney from Point A to Point B, but the points of interest along the way. Helen |
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09-26-2012, 10:00 AM | #43 | |
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yes, amusing little story with simple narrative for teaching kids a straightforward moral lesson. The conclusion here -- like in most fables intended for education -- is the selling point, not the story or narration. have you ever read any poetry at all? |
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09-26-2012, 10:14 AM | #44 | |
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It's the story that readers are after. Great prose enhances a story, but it can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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