Comments on: >Poor Lois http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7931 Anonymous Wed, 06 May 2009 16:24:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7931 >It's totally amazing to me that folks think they have a legitimate right to post an opinionated opinion about what should win when they haven't read both entires! Tsk, tsk, that's not fair--- although I admire their gutsy willingness to admit to ignorance. But opinons based onignorance are ignorant and lack validity. <br /><br />Sincerely, nitpicki >It’s totally amazing to me that folks think they have a legitimate right to post an opinionated opinion about what should win when they haven’t read both entires! Tsk, tsk, that’s not fair— although I admire their gutsy willingness to admit to ignorance. But opinons based onignorance are ignorant and lack validity.

Sincerely, nitpicki

]]> By: kathleen duey http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7930 kathleen duey Wed, 06 May 2009 15:24:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7930 >Well. I don't know what I expected to find in the comments about BoB, but this wasn't it! I love you all. Thank you! >Well. I don’t know what I expected to find in the comments about BoB, but this wasn’t it! I love you all. Thank you!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7928 Anonymous Tue, 05 May 2009 18:21:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7928 >Anon 1:45<br /><br />You are just baiting me. You want me to break my promise to stop hijacking Roger's blog. Nunh-unh. No way. Some else is going to have to tell you why that's moronic.<br /><br />oversurli >Anon 1:45

You are just baiting me. You want me to break my promise to stop hijacking Roger’s blog. Nunh-unh. No way. Some else is going to have to tell you why that’s moronic.

oversurli

]]> By: Lyle Blake http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7927 Lyle Blake Tue, 05 May 2009 18:13:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7927 >oversurli, you wrote: "Sometimes I think poorly written books get a pass because they are SRS and SRS books are supposed to be boring."<br /><br />Can you (or someone else) explain what SRS stands for? I'm totally in the dark on this one.<br /><br />Lyle Blake >oversurli, you wrote: “Sometimes I think poorly written books get a pass because they are SRS and SRS books are supposed to be boring.”

Can you (or someone else) explain what SRS stands for? I’m totally in the dark on this one.

Lyle Blake

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7926 Anonymous Tue, 05 May 2009 17:45:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7926 >oversurli, I am with you.<br /><br />I would also rather read an outstanding adult nonfiction book than an "outstanding" young adult novel any day. I would have said this as a teenager, too. >oversurli, I am with you.

I would also rather read an outstanding adult nonfiction book than an “outstanding” young adult novel any day. I would have said this as a teenager, too.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7925 Anonymous Mon, 04 May 2009 13:44:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7925 >what ever happened to the cute little faces that used to accompany your messages? (the best part of the exchanges) I thought one wasn't permitted to speak without this sign of deference to the power elite >what ever happened to the cute little faces that used to accompany your messages? (the best part of the exchanges) I thought one wasn’t permitted to speak without this sign of deference to the power elite

]]> By: gail http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7924 gail Mon, 04 May 2009 12:34:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7924 >Elizabeth--I wonder if the torn-between-two-lovers scenario isn't a cliche, though I agree that people seem to really like it. >Elizabeth–I wonder if the torn-between-two-lovers scenario isn’t a cliche, though I agree that people seem to really like it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7923 Anonymous Mon, 04 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7923 >See me not saying anything? That's because I've totally stopped hijacking Roger's blog . . . promise.<br /><br />oversurli and out >See me not saying anything? That’s because I’ve totally stopped hijacking Roger’s blog . . . promise.

oversurli and out

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7922 Anonymous Mon, 04 May 2009 00:57:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7922 >is this the place we are suppsed to write? a way of content control/ >is this the place we are suppsed to write? a way of content control/

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/poor-lois/#comment-7921 Anonymous Sun, 03 May 2009 19:41:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3298#comment-7921 >I actually liked both books a lot for different reasons, so whatever Lois Lowry chooses, it will be one of my two favorite books of 2008.<br /><br />An interesting common trait with these two finalists is that neither is a complete story in and of itself, since Octavian is volume two of a lengthy novel and Hunger Games is the first volume of a trilogy. <br /><br />Will it matter if Lois Lowry has read volume I of Octavian? if she has, will that give the book an unfair advantage, since she obviously can't read the complete Hunger Games trilogy? Or if she's only read volume II, will she have enough background, since essentially she'd be starting a novel half-way through? Of the two, I'd say Hunger Games functions better as a stand-alone. >I actually liked both books a lot for different reasons, so whatever Lois Lowry chooses, it will be one of my two favorite books of 2008.

An interesting common trait with these two finalists is that neither is a complete story in and of itself, since Octavian is volume two of a lengthy novel and Hunger Games is the first volume of a trilogy.

Will it matter if Lois Lowry has read volume I of Octavian? if she has, will that give the book an unfair advantage, since she obviously can’t read the complete Hunger Games trilogy? Or if she’s only read volume II, will she have enough background, since essentially she’d be starting a novel half-way through? Of the two, I’d say Hunger Games functions better as a stand-alone.

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