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Originally Posted by RebelwithoutaPause
At the risk of being lynched here...
blatant commercialism ripping of classics is not neccesarily bad.
It brings new fans and so new ideas into the genre.
Yes the kid wrote the same book that a million other authers have already written but if he can grow from that its good for the future of the genre.
The writing itself wasnt that bad either, obviously some of you on here are very technically adept writers ( I've read and enjoyed a lot of the work on this website guys props to all of you) and so maybe this guy annoys you cos he isnt.
Now Me I aint'nt as good a writer as you clever chaps...but I am a punter who buys books and I liked what a I read see .....well mostly a little maturity wont do him any harm.
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Like I said, I haven't even read the books, so I couldn't comment on his writing style. I just couldn't find the logic in some earlier comments where it was being said that the books weren't very skilfully written or original but were still good because they were 'good for a teen'.
And I still don't see why he's published if this is the case. I don't see how poorer quality versions of the same story filling up the shelves in the fantasy section is a good thing for the genre. If he's a competent enough writer, and like you said 'he can grow from that', then let him grow from that and develop his
own ideas
before he gets published. That way, he actually might contribute something worthwhile to the genre.
While it might bring more kids to the genre purely through its commercial presence, new fans doesn't mean new ideas. If anything, it's going to encourage other competent writers to sink into the same mould. Then the genre loses its innovation. I actually don't read all that many fantasy books because I glance at the blurbs and so many of them sound the same.
Plus, why should this guy be making money from ideas that are so blatantly not his? I just think there's something wrong with that, whether his books are well-written or not.