You have valid points and yes, I can see how they have a place but I am going off every other essentials thread on the site. Look, at the DS essentials thread. No negatives. That said, I will increase the actual requirements for each category.Pyrofyr said:Negatives are necessary for this thread to work out. It gives a field for people who don't like (and have read) stuff from those authors to say "No", it also removes the insane curve "Essential" eventually has. Without negatives it takes only 20 votes. With negatives it could take 50, meaning that there's also people who think it's bad (apparently 30). Putting negatives next to the total as a second number would be a decent way for you to keep track, and for it to be a fair basis. For example I can say that Stephanie Meyer is absolute shit, her books are terrible, she shouldn't be writing. And I'm sure there are others that feel the same, but all it takes is 20 zombies who enjoy crappy books because they don't read real books to come and say it's good for it to be essential, despite the 30~50 possible people who think it's crap, giving the book false fame.
I've yet to see you give a real reason for 'no negatives' it's a terrible idea.
As for Books/Series. It's true that should be what exists, not an Authors list, although some Authors can be put that way, for example Stephen King's books are for the most part similar, so they could just be listed as "Stephen King Titles".
Pyrofyr said:Stephanie Meyer is absolute shit, her books are terrible, she shouldn't be writing.
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(novel)
Got way too little publicity and hype. Amazing book. Have you read this yet? Me no think so.
I do think that there are some authors with good books and bad books. Look at Steph. People whine about Twilight when they haven't even read The Host. (one of her amazing books)
QUOTE(Edgedancer @ Nov 27 2009, 10:38 AM) J.K. Rowling (5)
Dan Brown (4)
Eion Colfer (3)
Stephen King (3)
Dan Brown (3)
KingdomBlade said:Pyrofyr said:Stephanie Meyer is absolute shit, her books are terrible, she shouldn't be writing.
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(novel)
Got way too little publicity and hype. Amazing book. Have you read this yet? Me no think so.
I do think that there are some authors with good books and bad books. Look at Steph. People whine about Twilight when they haven't even read The Host.
I'm going to be frank with you, The Host doesn't look like a book I'd read.KingdomBlade said:Pyrofyr said:Stephanie Meyer is absolute shit, her books are terrible, she shouldn't be writing.
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(novel)
Got way too little publicity and hype. Amazing book. Have you read this yet? Me no think so.
I do think that there are some authors with good books and bad books. Look at Steph. People whine about Twilight when they haven't even read The Host. (one of her amazing books)
QUOTE(Edgedancer @ Nov 27 2009, 10:38 AM) J.K. Rowling (5)
Dan Brown (4)
Eion Colfer (3)
Stephen King (3)
Dan Brown (3)
Also, I noticed there are two Dan Browns.
Blue Zoidberg said:-1
J.K. Rowling
Stephanie Meyer
(Getting children to read fluff for the sake of getting them to read is stupid. Find children's stories with substance and weight; their teachers and future employers will thank you)