Stephanie Meyer wrote a story that girls connected with. The story is what sold. Her actual writing, however, will not be shown in a writing class--ever. So, in a literary sense, pretty much every book on a classic list is superior to Twilight, though Twilight may have killed them in sales. It had the right team behind it to help make it successful.
Stephanie Meyer hit an untapped market and ran with it, but don't think for a moment that she is some wonderful literary genius. 99.99% of writers who style themselves after her will never have an editor get past the first five pages of their work.
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Anonymous2009-08-07 18:49
>>10
read again the post you are replying to and realize how foolish you are
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Anonymous2009-08-07 18:59
>>7 >>10
jesus christ people on 4chan are goddamn stupid
I stand by my post. If you want, I can cite any section of her book here and show you what writing rule she breaks that 99% of editors and agents despise, usually rejecting the work outright for its usage.
Twilight will NEVER be known as a literary classic. That is a fact. If you ask the average person here to list a top 5 of novels, two will probably find themselves on a required reading list in some school. Twilight will not.
The OP nails one from his three. Ender's Game is a piece of great American Literature because of its deeper theme of tolerance and understanding.
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Anonymous2009-08-07 19:13
>>13 Ender's Game is a piece of great American Literature
welp
Unless you have an argument that backs up your meaningless one word reply and can explain to me why it is on many librarians' list of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century and is required reading in many schools, I suggest you get back to the kitchen.
The human sciences with their hermeneutic techniques are at the core of this course. We will explore various interpretive methods: including comparative mythology, hermeneutic psychology, and marxist sociology. We will look closely at how books and movies produce widely differing fantasy phenomena.
Major Readings:
J.K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER, Vols. 1-7
EPIC
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Anonymous2009-08-07 22:30
20 years in the future harry potter will be required reading in schools mark my words
I picked up a copy of Don Quixote. Thing was thick, but even more horrifying, the text was small. There were like 3 regular novel pages per page. I felt a month of my life slipping away just looking at it. Even the cliff notes version was longer than most novels.
Cervantes must have spent a long time on it.
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Anonymous2009-08-08 20:57
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
Highly recommended.
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Anonymous2009-08-08 21:28
I tried Don Quixote, got to page 732 (of 982) and gave up. Some of the individual vignettes were good but otherwise I was just finding it too much of a slog, very pleb of me.
Anyway I add The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe to the epic list.
All of the Tales Of The Malazan Book Of The Fallen by Steven Erikson.
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Anonymous2009-08-10 6:02
>>27
yeah, noticed that too, haven't even gotten through my copy. I just got through the first section, and after realizing how little into the book i've read, I gave it up. it's been sitting on it's shelf the last year.
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Anonymous2009-08-10 11:09
The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham
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Anonymous2009-08-11 1:21
Fuck you guys, how can you not love Don Quixote? Sancho's mixed up parables are amazing.
Cervante's work was plagiarized when he published volume one, seems someone raced him and finished a fake volume 2, but it was noticeable it was a fake because of some mark Cervante left on the documents....but I don't quite remember how he got to finish the second part quickly in order to correct the vulgar and barbaric action of the imbecile who supposedly finished his work, so there are in fact two versions of the second volume, you'd have to do research about it.
Still, even now days copies of the fake volume #2 have a title that leads you to know it's the fake, and then there's his original work.
Still, me being Puerto Rican and I have Spanish by nature, and it's a damned, long read if you have what somebody would call...I have no idea of what you call it but it has a very distinct tongue then the one now days, and us having Spanish roots and all.
The english would be, the adapted version for english readers, yet we stick with the somewhat "original" kind of intention.
Yet I'm not sure, I've never picked up a english version of Don Quixote since the purpose was of a Hispanic liteature piece.
(Correct me if I'm wrong though.)
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Anonymous2009-08-17 2:19
Oh yeah, and when I said I don't quite remember how he got to finish the thing, I meant it because it seems Cervante had help from his friends. Not sure though.
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Anonymous2009-08-21 9:24
there's a lotta shitlit in this thread
eg King's Gunman series, and his horror works.
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Anonymous2009-08-23 3:37
You people are forgetting the roots:
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Mahabharata
Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
The Bible
Beowulf
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Anonymous2009-08-23 5:49
>>41
You forgot about the Nibelungenlied and El Cantar de Mio Cid faggot
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Anonymous2009-08-23 6:56
Of course I can't remember EVERYTHING
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Anonymous2009-08-23 14:51
Witcher Saga.
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Anonymous2009-08-23 21:47
uhh...
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett, I guess. Gives the thought-maker goin', ha ha ha.