The How Was Your Day thread v2.0

[Destrauxe]

I. Want. To. Buy. This. Song. I must acquire it somehow. Itunes needs to get it so I can buy it from them or something. I'm so sad they don't have it.

[TimesRevolt]

Cousin is comming over sometime today. Sigh weekend will be boring.

[GenericDragon]

I. Want. To. Buy. This. Song. I must acquire it somehow. Itunes needs to get it so I can buy it from them or something. I'm so sad they don't have it.

What song?

[Raine]

I haven't felt like playing Magistream since the Saerulis left. This fucking sucks.

[Sochitelya]

lol at this person (who's apparently like, 20, and just graduated with a degree in Creative Writing) saying that maybe if Henry James wrote Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, it would be '50% as good as Harry Potter instead of only 10%.'

Wow. Just wow. Newsflash: Harry Potter isn't actually all that good. It's fun, sure, a decent read and a decent story, but it's not the be-all and end-all of literature.

[SouthernCryptid]

lol at this person (who's apparently like, 20, and just graduated with a degree in Creative Writing) saying that maybe if Henry James wrote Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, it would be '50% as good as Harry Potter instead of only 10%.'

Wow. Just wow. Newsflash: Harry Potter isn't actually all that good. It's fun, sure, a decent read and a decent story, but it's not the be-all and end-all of literature.

For one, the Hunger Games wasn't meant to be like Harry Potter, or to perform the same point as Harry Potter.

Sure, both are written for the YA audience, but that's where the similarity ends.

You CANNOT. CANNOT. CANNOT. Compare literature. If you can- then one of them is obviously based off of the other, because otherwise, there is NOT ENOUGH SIMULARITY to compare the two.

Harry Potter is great, but in my opinion, and agreeing with what you said, it is FAR FROM the pinnacle of literature. FAR FROM. I LOVE Harry Potter, but the Hunger Games(which I also LOVE) and Harry Potter cannot be compared, as they are on TWO DIFFERENT planes.

*rubs head in annoyance*

[BBkat]

Oh crap, one of my other entries is too short. Damnnit, I gotta lengthen that one too.

[Dave]

Just had a great family lunch c:

[TimesRevolt]

Nothing to do

[TxCat]

You CANNOT. CANNOT. CANNOT. Compare literature. If you can- then one of them is obviously based off of the other, because otherwise, there is NOT ENOUGH SIMULARITY to compare the two.

Actually, you can compare and contrast literature. I spent a large portion of my academic career doing so and then spent aboyt five years teaching high school and middle school students the concept. The two works don't even need to be based off one another nor do they even need to be the same genre. I've seen essays which successfully compared such dissimilar elements as a popular TV show and a classic short story aving nothing to do with the show.

We can do this because not one thing written is a new, genuine idea. They all come down to three basic themes: man against another man, man against nature, and man agsinst his inner self.

Personally, I would not consider either series literature. They're books but not literature. Literature, for me, holds some higher social purpose besides entertainment. It has to demonstrate high quality, original thought, fluid use of the language. It has to express some form of idea which is of permanent and enduring interest (meaning that whatever was written will either speak to future generations or at least demonstrate something about the era in which it was written).

Both series are entertaining, though I do not consider either well written, but they're just stories. 50 years from now no one will be reading them, if they remember them at all.

And no...I don't read popular materials. Most don't live up to the hype so I have just quit buying or reading them.