Comments on: Card on Rowling http://mikescape.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/card-on-rowling/ "I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; for You have magnified Your Word above all Your name." -Psalm 138:2 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:14:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: iapetus http://mikescape.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/card-on-rowling/#comment-3306 iapetus Sun, 11 May 2008 18:50:22 +0000 http://mikescape.wordpress.com/?p=366#comment-3306 I've read Huxley's "Brave New World" too, & would agree that it's muse-worthy I’ve read Huxley’s “Brave New World” too, & would agree that it’s muse-worthy

]]> By: livingjourney http://mikescape.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/card-on-rowling/#comment-3301 livingjourney Tue, 06 May 2008 04:37:08 +0000 http://mikescape.wordpress.com/?p=366#comment-3301 Hahaha... I have read the first two of Rowlings books... just to see what the fuss was all about. I really didn't like them at all. I found them to be quite boring. I am more of sci-fi girl myself. My favourites are "The cosmic Trilogy" and "Till we have faces" by C S Lewis. And I really like "A brave new world" by Aldous Huxley. That book should be studied especially considering we are entering something that vaguely resembles what Huxley wrote about. The ramifications of this "brave new world" are horrifying. Did you know that it is said that there are only seven different archetypal stories, these are... # the villain # the provider # the helper # the princess and her father # the dispatcher # the hero # the false hero and these fit into seven different plots... 1. [wo]man vs. nature 2. [wo]man vs. man 3. [wo]man vs. the environment 4. [wo]man vs. machines/technology 5. [wo]man vs. the supernatural 6. [wo]man vs. self 7. [wo]man vs. god/religion Hahaha… I have read the first two of Rowlings books… just to see what the fuss was all about. I really didn’t like them at all. I found them to be quite boring.

I am more of sci-fi girl myself. My favourites are “The cosmic Trilogy” and “Till we have faces” by C S Lewis.

And I really like “A brave new world” by Aldous Huxley. That book should be studied especially considering we are entering something that vaguely resembles what Huxley wrote about. The ramifications of this “brave new world” are horrifying.

Did you know that it is said that there are only seven different archetypal stories, these are…

# the villain
# the provider
# the helper
# the princess and her father
# the dispatcher
# the hero
# the false hero

and these fit into seven different plots…

1. [wo]man vs. nature
2. [wo]man vs. man
3. [wo]man vs. the environment
4. [wo]man vs. machines/technology
5. [wo]man vs. the supernatural
6. [wo]man vs. self
7. [wo]man vs. god/religion

]]> By: chad myhre http://mikescape.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/card-on-rowling/#comment-3300 chad myhre Tue, 06 May 2008 02:21:44 +0000 http://mikescape.wordpress.com/?p=366#comment-3300 What? How dare someone not read Ender's Game. I've recently just read it myself and am about to crack Speaker For The Dead. Next to Robin Hobb, OSC is one of my favorites.. Look out for distant and vague allegorical references to Morminism... or, am I just paranoid? :) What? How dare someone not read Ender’s Game. I’ve recently just read it myself and am about to crack Speaker For The Dead. Next to Robin Hobb, OSC is one of my favorites.. Look out for distant and vague allegorical references to Morminism… or, am I just paranoid? :)

]]> By: mike macon http://mikescape.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/card-on-rowling/#comment-3298 mike macon Fri, 02 May 2008 23:59:23 +0000 http://mikescape.wordpress.com/?p=366#comment-3298 They literally aren't even in the same category. Card's stuff is epic in scope, with great, mind-bending twists (my absolute favorite was the Piggy secret at the end of <i>Speaker for the Dead</i>) and aimed at the adult reader. Rowling's stuff is...well, again, <i>unimpressive</i> and predictable, and aimed at children. They literally aren’t even in the same category.

Card’s stuff is epic in scope, with great, mind-bending twists (my absolute favorite was the Piggy secret at the end of Speaker for the Dead) and aimed at the adult reader.

Rowling’s stuff is…well, again, unimpressive and predictable, and aimed at children.

]]> By: iapetus http://mikescape.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/card-on-rowling/#comment-3297 iapetus Fri, 02 May 2008 22:00:12 +0000 http://mikescape.wordpress.com/?p=366#comment-3297 O.S. Card's commentary is well put indeed, that piece was practically brilliant haven't read "Ender's Game" though, so I don't have a good grasp on how close it is to J.K. Rowling's stuff O.S. Card’s commentary is well put indeed, that piece was practically brilliant

haven’t read “Ender’s Game” though, so I don’t have a good grasp on how close it is to J.K. Rowling’s stuff

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