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  1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Public alert: If Lightwards reanimates the dead Amputees, Funtimes will flat refuse to change their clothes. It is suggested Lightwards decide right now whether or not he can handle an entire army of tutu-clad Warriors.
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    Which he already faced by confessing it to Megan.
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    "Well whaddya know. They died laughing." --Amputee, sometime in the future
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    My district only taught Speak as part of its Modern Teen Lit course--an elective for seniors. Needless to say, I find this an absolute travesty. That book should be taught to all high schoolers, but not the way they usually teach books (reports, repeated analysis, hammering the symbolism through your skull). I think teens should be required to read it, and to complete quizzes to prove they're paying attention, and then when everyone is finished, the entire class should get together and say what they thought of it. Speak is one of those books that should be read, but where the less intervention is given, the better.
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    But Nighthound. The lack of pugs. It's terrifying. I think his intro was the beginning of my Emotionally Scarring Backstory. Think about how much better it would be if Red enslaved herself to a houseplant.
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    Retconning Nighthound and adding pugs? What excellent ideas. Whatever makes you think I'd go mad with power in the first place?
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    Just did.
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    Okay, I had another thought on the "David's real fear is becoming an Epic" front. Nowhere else in the series does David exhibit a fear of being made an Epic. If becoming an Epic was indeed his greatest fear, it seems there would be at least one passage in Steelheart where he ponders what it would be like to become an Epic, how awful he thinks it would be, how he hopes he's never chosen for it. He never mentions this. Not once does he acknowledge it as a possibility until Regalia lets him know it's possible, and that is the only time we see him fear it--when it's actually about to happen. If becoming an Epic were David's greatest fear, I think it would have been mentioned earlier.
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    Much gratitude for the second Reckoners question especially, though there's a decent chance it'll get RAFOed.
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    I wonder it he influenced Douglas Adams. His work is usually hilarious, but also very cynical, and a common theme pervading that cynicism is the insignificance of humanity and human choices. You could even arguably expand that to say he focuses on the insignificance of sentience in general, especially in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. And like I said, his books are hilarious, but very cynical, and a lot of the cynicism stems from the idea that humans and their choices are largely insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe.
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    The Prestige?
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    Not really, though I know I probably should.
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    I have now that I googled it. If HP Lovecraft listed it among his greatest influences, it may be worth looking into.
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    His buttons are all shaped like 0s, and his hat has a dark purple band fastened with a golden 0.
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    Tall, lanky, in his 60s with short grey hair mostly covered by a black top hat. He also wears a black suit with a black waistcoat.
  16. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Darn. And here I left my non-prescription horn rim glasses at home in favor of my prescription ones. But yeah, I kind of am. My school didn't teach Les Mis, but I read it and The Count of Monte Cristo on my own and compared the movies to them. Jim Caviezel's performance as Edmond Dantes was perhaps the best I've ever seen.
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    To be honest, I haven't seen the newest movie. Most of my experience comes from the book and the 1998 non-musical version with Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean and Geoffry Rush as Inspector Javert. And in my opinion, that version does more justice to the source material than the musical. The songs are beautiful, don't get me wrong, but I think stripping the music and leaving just the story better preserves the book's sense of drama and the paranoia underlying Valjean and Javert's game of cat and mouse.
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    More saving them for a special occasion, and I can't think of a better one than this. As soon as I get home, I will give you pug pictures. OH, SUCH PUG PICTURES WILL I GIVE!
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    I have a few gratuitous pug pictures I've been saving.
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    HOW MAY WE APPEASE YOU, O MIGHTY EDGEDANCER?
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    And, if we're basing the 1:1000 ratio off of the current population, this almost certainly means the ratio at the time of the series might be lower. Regalia killed tens of thousands when she flooded Manhattan. Obliteration killed tens of thousands when he destroyed those cities. Steelheart, by the time the first book begins, has 17,000 deaths to his name. Other Epics killed fewer, true, but those deaths do add up, so by the time Steelheart begins, Epics' tendency to treat non-Epics as expendable has most likely lowered the Epic-to-human ratio. Of course, if we're basing the 1:1000 ratio off the population in the books, ignore me.
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    You think believing one or both of David's parents became Epics six years before Calamity rose is insane? Remind me to tell you about the Official Reckoners RP Headcanon Concerning Calamity's True Identity™ sometime.
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    I don't blame her one bit. A thousand pugs shall tilt their heads in confusion at the advancing horde!
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    It's odd. While those books are definitely considered classics—as are Count of Monte Cristo (which I adore) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame—they aren't usually read in schools. When they are, they're put on an elective reading list, where students can read them for assignments like book reports, or for points as part of programs designed to get them to read longer and more difficult books. Seldom will a teacher require their entire class to read Anne of Green Gables or Little Women. The reason for this is that prevalent "wisdom" here in the States says that while girls are able to enjoy books told from a male perspective, boys rarely enjoy books told from a female perspective. Which is so sexist it would be hilarious, if it weren't so commonly accepted. And it's wrong. Just look at all the teenage boys who loved The Hunger Games. Or talk to a brony, or one of any number of guys who enjoyed Frozen. There are some teachers who refuse to believe it. When I was in 11th grade, my English teacher assigned us Harriet Ann Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, an 1861 autobiography of a former slave who detailed all of the horrible things an attractive female slave could face on a Southern plantation back in those days. The boys in my class loved it, were horrified by the things Jacobs went through, sympathized with her….in other words, they and my teacher proved that boys can and do enjoy books written by and about women, and they enjoy them quite a bit. But that doesn't stop the majority of American teachers from assigning books written by and about men.
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