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Originally Posted by MelC
My thoughts exactly - I always have fun paralleling as much of it as I can to Star Wars (the original trilogy) which is also derivative. But it is interesting to recognize that the whole series (and it ain't short or finished for that matter) was written by a teenage boy (he may be twenty now but he was only sixteen when he wrote the first one).
Mel
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I read the first one just to see what all the fuss was about when I heard the author was 15. I must say I found it rather boring, derivative and shallow. I can understand why a fuss was made, since it's respectable writing
for a 15 year old, but I didn't think it was "good writing" in general and there wasn't anything that made me want to continue with the series.
I never understood why a movie was made out of it or why a 2nd and 3rd book got published for that matter.
Cheers,
PKFFW