I guess a lot of people read the first few books as children, then kept reading the newer ones as they got older because of that and liked them less and less and grew into a hatedom as more got published? I've seen the same thing in Dune fandom or Star Wars EU (which hasn't even gotten worse in my opinion).
Probably this. Also, is this for analyzing à la Hunger Games? You might have fun with it due to the Little Hitler-- What a Scamp! themes and/or looking for evidence of OSC's titanic repressed homosexuality, but I would say overall it's not /bad/ enough to really spork well.
But everyone already knows those things! I can't possibly do more Hitlernalysis than the person who wrote that massive essay, and the fact he's gay is already pretty clear and more obvious in his later works anyway.
If you were spork Ender’s Shadow on the other hand, I could get behind that. It turns out that Ender’s genius was greatly overstated and apparently Bean was the real super-genius all along. Reconning abounds as it transpires that Ender’s success was mainly down to Bean's manipulation of events. For reason’s I cannot fathom most people regard this book as nearly as good/equal to Ender’s Game.
Well, there was definitely a steady decline in the series as time goes on. But Ender's Game was the good one, so I can't really satisfy the hatedom by just talking about that one.
I liked parts of Elantris, and I really liked the concept of Elantris...but if you'd like to stick to liking it, you don't want me reviewing that one.
I think people have the impression I'm just an automated hate machine, designed to perfectly tear apart works of fiction. But if a book is just sort of middling to decent in writing, there's not going to be much for me to rip into.
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Date: 2011-09-12 03:14 am (UTC)If you were spork Ender’s Shadow on the other hand, I could get behind that. It turns out that Ender’s genius was greatly overstated and apparently Bean was the real super-genius all along. Reconning abounds as it transpires that Ender’s success was mainly down to Bean's manipulation of events. For reason’s I cannot fathom most people regard this book as nearly as good/equal to Ender’s Game.
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Date: 2011-09-11 11:54 pm (UTC)I'm not sure why people are so supportive of doing Ender's Game either..
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:40 am (UTC)I think people have the impression I'm just an automated hate machine, designed to perfectly tear apart works of fiction. But if a book is just sort of middling to decent in writing, there's not going to be much for me to rip into.