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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:07 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:23 pm
Go read it, if you're confused. Feel free to post. cool They might answer questions.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:26 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:29 pm
Now that story I don't know, and when I try to Google it I come up with a 12 year old novel retelling of the story rather than the story itself. What is it?
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:40 pm
ArynChris Now that story I don't know, and when I try to Google it I come up with a 12 year old novel retelling of the story rather than the story itself. What is it? It's a book by J. V. Jones, I read it once back when I was a sophmore in HS, I enjoyed it well enough, but it's more fantasy and not quite fairy tail. >.> if that makes any sense.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:42 pm
Right, that's what I found on Google. Never heard of it, myself, but I'm seeing things that say it's a cliched story (baker's boy discovering hidden powers/talents/magic).
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:51 pm
ArynChris Right, that's what I found on Google. Never heard of it, myself, but I'm seeing things that say it's a cliched story (baker's boy discovering hidden powers/talents/magic). Of course it is, pretty much every fantasy story is a cliched story.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:53 pm
Yeah, Tolkien and his myths and legends... What a precedent!
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:57 pm
But honestly, people stress over plot comparisons way too much I think. Good versus Evil is a cliche, but that's such a broad theme that so many things fall into it, and then so many things can be stretched to fall into it. If a story is too predictable, lacking a fresh and original feeling, or just plain poorly written, then I have a problem with it. But a story about a boy that discovers hidden powers being a cliche plot line, meh....
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:06 pm
It's only a cliche as a coming-of-age story, and there's nothing wrong with that! blaugh Teenagers and such never read enough to know that it's been done before anyway, so why not?
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:10 pm
Ppffff, everything's been done before to some extent or another, and on the opposite side of the spectrum nothing has been repeated, even the same book read twice is a different story.
DAMN YOU LITERARY THEORY!!!!! *shakes fist*
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:13 pm
You can't damn the truth, sweet, it's too holy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:25 pm
ArynChris You can't damn the truth, sweet, it's too holy. Curious, have you done any critical theory?
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:27 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:30 pm
xd Satan incarnate, but I do love the stuff. It's a bunch of talk that beats reality with a stick until it can't breathe anymore. Kinda like philosophy for English majors.
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