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[octopirock.livejournal.com]

I know this isn't strictly related, but I just spent quite a while playing around with this website: http://www.literature-map.com/

It's an interactive web that maps out authors according to how likely it is that their fan base overlaps.

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[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

........why is Joss Whedon on there.

[coyul.livejournal.com]

and Russel T. Davies. XD

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

better question is WHY IS CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI SO CLOSE TO MWT

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

At least Paolini is a writer author novelist person whose publications (however terrible and undeserved) involve words being printed on paper, not tiny overpowered teenage girls beating on men half their size.

Basically, there's No Accounting For Taste (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoAccountingForTaste).

[(Anonymous)]

Many of the people who read Eragon probably saw Thief on the children's shelf and were immediately converted.

It's merely a gateway drug.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Love <3 the icon. Kyoko is so cute when she talks on the phone!

*doesn't like Paolini either*

Eargon was okay... if not extremely long winded, but don't even get me started on Eldest.

Look on the bright side, Stephenie Meyer is far, far away.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Got that right.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Carolyn Meyer?

As in Doomed Queen Anne and Beware, Princess Elizabeth?

Yay!

Sherwood Smith?

As in Crown Duel?

Yay!

Stephenie Meyer far, far away?

As in Twilight?

Yay!

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I like seeing overpowered teenage girls eating people up, so. :D

Joss Whedon also does comic books, which might be why he's on there, though it is admittedly odd.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

BEATING people up, my god.

Though seeing them eat people would be very amusing.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

yeah, maybe I'll think of it that way. :D

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

I love Kyoko. She has the most amazing faces. Moko too.

The biggest problem I had with Eragon was how utterly unoriginal and cliched it was. It was like a spewing of every sword-and-sorcery Tolkien rip-off created. With bad prose.

Yeah, I liked how Meyer was floating on the edge of space. :D

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Oops, would you mind making that more kid-friendly? Thanks! :D

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

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[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

The biggest problem I had with Eragon was how utterly unoriginal and cliched it was. It was like a spewing of every sword-and-sorcery Tolkien rip-off created. With bad prose.

*seconds*

I guess that's why I can't say I particularly hated it or liked it. I don't care either way. It was just boring.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I'm sorry! Duh...I should just mind my own business. I'm an idiot. :(

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Tooooo looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.

[teenareena.livejournal.com]

I've always thought of Aragon as Star Wars in Fantasyland.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, what is with the puritanical attitude in this comm? Livejournal isn't a playground. Children should stick to the Harper Collins website or something.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

If you don't like the way that this community discusses things, O Brave Anonymous Poster, you are under no obligation to be a part of it. As you can tell by my screen name, I am not a child, but that does not mean that I wish to wade through a cesspit of foul language.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

It's rather amazing how few of the supposedly related authors I've read - in fact, there are gobs of them of whom I've never even heard!

And I don't see Carolyn Keene there at all, and I've read all of her books, so shouldn't she be right nearby?

Snortle snortle!

[(Anonymous)]

I appreciate that this is an active forum for discussion of books that I enjoy. I posted anonymously because as a member here I'm not trying to burn bridges. I just wanted to point out a problem that I see with the overall unacceptance of anything that isn't G-rated, and a fairly obnoxious tendency to be overbearing and heavy-handed in the policing of that attitude. Thanks for proving my point.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

"Not trying to burn bridges" - but free to insult with impunity.

[(Anonymous)]

As opposed to insulting with selfrighteousness, I suppose. And meanwhile completely missing the point I was trying to make. Typical.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Not at all, you're managing both impunity and self-righteousness together.