lighten up

[pt4ever]

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From: pt4ever
Subject: RE: lighten up
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5734] RE: lighten up
Date: 8/4/00 4:19 pm  (ET)

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Just another "college kid" here, chiming in:
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For the record, I am also a college student. I'm a sophomore at the
University of Wyoming, to be exact. English major, Creative Writing
minor. Someday, I'd like to write "children's books" myself. I doubt
I'll be quite up to JKR's level, though. :)

I can say for a fact that if these were *my* books that all of you
were discussing, I would be delighted at the level of discussion taking
place. It would mean that I had made you think, and an author can't ask
for higher praise -- IMHO, anyway.

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What do you think there are high school and college literature classes
focusing on fiction for?? I don't think my school is revolutionary in
promoting this idea, but isn't the point of those classes to analyze
books? The idea I have gotten from evey lit. class I have ever taken
is books are something to analyze, just like music. And it's fun and
interesting to see things in books that may not even be there, but it
ADDS TO your enjoyment of the book. So, my point is, if you want to
just see the books for what is on the surface, but don't put down other
people's enjoyment of a deep discussion.
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I agree with this. Dogspoon, if you think the people of this club are
being too analytical, you have obviously never been to my American
Literature I class. A few of my classmates found phallic imagery in
Puritan literature. Now *that's* what I call analytical! :-) Besides,
we were often assigned eight-page essays -- you *had* to be overly
analytical if you were going to fill up that much space!

However, I suggest that we drop this subject. Dogspoon has had his
fifteen minutes and received the negative attention his low self-esteem
craves. I know from experience that it's just no use to fight a battle
of wits with an unarmed person.

-- JoAnna, who also knows where the Shift key is.