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Look...
« on: June 11, 2008, 12:01:28 AM »
Has anyone noticed Applegate's insane overuse of the word look?

As in: "Look, guys, I'm going to this..."

Not entirely annoying, just weird once I noticed it...
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Re: Look...
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2008, 12:52:26 AM »
Lol, yea i noticed. It was overy used. Like, every single Animorph said the word 'look' before starting a sentence. Marco and Rachel were the worst.

But since we're on that subject, I found it odd how Marco was this guy who clearly didnt care for reading, especially long books, and yet there he was in his narrative referencing Tolkien and Lord of the Rings. And many times i might add.

And i know it was only because KA was a big Tolkien lover, but still, bad characterization for Marco. Contradicts his behavior. It would be easy to see he didnt want people to think he actualyl read books, but come on., all the animorphs referenced similar things...

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Re: Look...
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2008, 01:00:51 AM »
But since we're on that subject, I found it odd how Marco was this guy who clearly didnt care for reading, especially long books, and yet there he was in his narrative referencing Tolkien and Lord of the Rings. And many times i might add.

Would I be able to ask which marco book has the reference? I'd like to go back and see that. I never noticed it, of course I was never a huge lotr fan so I probably would have just read it without thinking twice, only read the lotr series once.

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Re: Look...
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2008, 01:14:24 AM »
dont remember. But there were several i believe. And in one he compared Rachel to a fenale Tolkien elf. Beautiful but deadly.

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Re: Look...
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2008, 05:51:59 AM »
Yeah, in the Look thing, it was made in the point of view and of speaking of kids. Look, maybe everyday people just use "look" a lot.  ;D
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Re: Look...
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2008, 07:46:53 PM »
I haven't notice..but now i'm gonna..ahh
"I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-broughta-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would also be happy without them."

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Re: Look...
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2008, 09:32:21 PM »
Once you notice something, it's pretty hard to stop noticing, lol.
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Re: Look...
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2008, 09:49:24 PM »
Yeah, they do say a lot of things repetitively. "Look" was definitely one of them and I just thought of one I can no longer remember.
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Re: Look...
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2008, 09:53:27 PM »
lol, i started recording my lines for tobias, and like my third line is "look", my fourth is "just look"
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Basically I put everyone who looks like a good guy in Gryffindor and everyone who looks like a bad guy in Slytherin. The rest can go wherever the hell they want, I don't care.

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Re: Look...
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2008, 10:18:53 PM »
Rachel made a Lord of the Rings elf reference about Chapman's daughter in book two, and Marco failed to read one of the Lord of the Rings books for a book report in book five

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Re: Look...
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2008, 09:24:46 AM »
I think things like this happen with pretty much any writer. No matter what you're writing, parts of your writing (or speaking) style show through your work. I sometimes notice similar things when I read through my own writing.
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Re: Look...
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2008, 08:17:41 PM »
I think things like this happen with pretty much any writer. No matter what you're writing, parts of your writing (or speaking) style show through your work. I sometimes notice similar things when I read through my own writing.
like what?
"I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-broughta-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would also be happy without them."

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Re: Look...
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2008, 09:16:47 PM »
I think things like this happen with pretty much any writer. No matter what you're writing, parts of your writing (or speaking) style show through your work. I sometimes notice similar things when I read through my own writing.
like what?

Just little things really, like repeated use of certain words, or the way I describe things. You know how you can go weeks without using a word and then one day you end up saying it loads?
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Re: Look...
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2008, 09:18:19 PM »
yea, if you look through my writings, i say "he/she smiled" alot. i try to catch it and say different things, but i often dont
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Basically I put everyone who looks like a good guy in Gryffindor and everyone who looks like a bad guy in Slytherin. The rest can go wherever the hell they want, I don't care.

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Re: Look...
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2008, 09:25:10 PM »
I think things like this happen with pretty much any writer. No matter what you're writing, parts of your writing (or speaking) style show through your work. I sometimes notice similar things when I read through my own writing.
like what?

Just little things really, like repeated use of certain words, or the way I describe things. You know how you can go weeks without using a word and then one day you end up saying it loads?
oh yeah :)
"I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-broughta-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would also be happy without them."

- Harry Dresden/Jim Butcher, Ghost Story.