Those FUCKERS, all of them, stealing from OSC! (I know, I know, but the ones that came out *before* Ender's Game, well, they were....stealing straight out of his BRAIN!)
Teppy, Teppy, Teppy...you poor naive fool...
Obviously there was an extensive plot using time-travel! They even took the basic premises behind Ender's Game and enjoined Homer and Virgil to write epics based on them! The New Testament? Handed to the authors by time-travelling scumfuckers who only wanted to discredit and rip off OSC.
You'd have to be blind to not see it.
You'd have to be blind to not see it.
::weeps:: You're right! You're so right! OSC, forgive me!!!
JKR stole lots of notions, but OSC is not even in the top ten of her influences.
Which is why I actually agree (in a general sense) with a lot of what he is saying in that piece.
I really really liked Ender's Game. That having been said, the man is full of shit.
That just about sums it up, doesn't it?
I don't know. If the guy had written a book with very similar themes and tropes and JKR was having a fit over it, then sure. That's not really what's going here though - apples and oranges, from where I sit.
That just about sums it up, doesn't it?
Sums up a lot of writers and artists. In fact, finding the ones who aren't full of shit is probably the rarer trait.
Writers Who Aren't Full of Shit:
Neil Gaiman (very sensible and charming)
Uhm...Richard Russo seems like a good guy.
Flannery O'Conner (thoroughly impatient with bullshit)
Hmmm, Philip Roth is not full of shit, but has been frequently pretty shitty.
Which is why I actually agree (in a general sense) with a lot of what he is saying in that piece.
I can't take his point seriously because of all the parallels he's trying to draw. There are only so many stories to be told is
way
different from how transformative a lexicon may or may not be. The degree and honesty of Dumbledore's homosexuality? Compared to OSC's treatment of same? How is it relevant and anything other than distracting?
Writers Who Aren't Full of Shit:
That list was soooo full of shit. (To quote a great imaginary American, I kid! I kid because I loooooove.)
Maybe because I've never read anything else he's written, I could just mostly walk away with his main point, which was JKR is being really hypocritical in all this, which I've been thinking for some time.
I also found OSC's characterization of JKR to be annoying. I mean...for all I know he may be right, but how does he know what her motivations might be? And, again, how is it relevant to the subject of discussion?
