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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #60 on: August 02, 2009, 03:09:34 PM »
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This hero-worship you have of her is rather tiresome.

Escafil, if you have a problem with me, you are most welcome to take it up with me directly in PM. In the meantime, I would sincerely appreciate it if you would think before you post something like that, because it smacks of outright hostility. We are here to discuss the naming of the series, not to take out our personal problems on each other through arguments that don't even acknowledge the text we quote.

Please, with all respect due to a colleague, take a chill pill.

Now, if I'm making assumptions about her contract, then so are you. Neither of us has it in front of us that we can spell out every nuance of meaning in the restrictions placed on author and publisher.
I do not worship her; I do not consider her a hero. She's a writer. Have I stated or even implied anywhere here that she's infallible?

And begging your pardon, but the last story arc didn't seem terribly disinterested to me. She put real work into it, even if there was a serious lapse in focus in the middle of the series.

Last point: loyalty is subjective. There are parts of the world where it is considered an act of loving loyalty for a wife to commit suicide on her husband's funeral pyre. There are other parts of the world where it is considered loyal to live on as a grieving widow.
You be loyal to the Animorphs series in your own way, and let me enjoy my books as I will.


We need to get back on-topic. Yeah, The Conspiracy could have been better named.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2009, 04:42:45 PM »
guys, play nice

i personally think the beginning was an amazing title for the last book, however i did like the last book unlike pretty much everybody else
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2009, 04:53:50 PM »
"And so, they lived happily ever after. The Beginning."

Back on topic. What if they named the first book of the final arc The Countdown?
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2009, 04:54:29 PM »
That would be cool. :)
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2009, 04:55:32 PM »
that actually would have been interesting, but i think it makes the last few books lose their effect, i also didnt like that they did the whole "5 books till the end" thing, i think it should have been a surprise that the last book was "the Beginning" like they should have said it in the second last book (whose name is escaping me)
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #65 on: August 02, 2009, 05:00:04 PM »
The Answer, as I recall. I may be wrong in that guess, though.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #66 on: August 02, 2009, 05:07:36 PM »
I think it would have been better to just have that title be in a book, instead of saying the countdown has begun, and five books until the end. That way it gives you the impression that it will be over soon, but you don't know exactly when that will be.
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