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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:40 PM Original message |
Question for MJ fans. Who is the greatest writer of all time? Is it Agatha Christie? |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nope , King James! |
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handmade34 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. just edited it |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. SHe was certainly |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. George C. Chesbro |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. Actually, I find her books a pleasure to read |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't think anyone is claiming MJ was a better writer than Agatha Christie. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. No. But some are claiming he was the "greatest entertainer of all time." |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Wouldn't success at entertainment equate with greatness at entertainment? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. He had access to people that generations of earlier entertainers didn't have. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. And there were medieval peasants with bigger brains than Einstein. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. Einstein's followers never called him the King of Science. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. Oh, be real. People gushed over Einstein, his name has become synonymous with intelligence. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. The media's focus on the death of one entertainer for more than |
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ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
46. This is a subjective judgement |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. As for talent, what kind of talent? AC had a remarkable talent for writing books that sell. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. No. I'm saying that commercial success is only one way to measure talent. n/t |
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Phentex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Has anyone argued otherwise? |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. no they haven't..... but some people desperately need to feel superior to others.... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Again, what type of talent? Christie was a better mystery writer than MJ. |
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Phentex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. I think JK Rowling will break AC's record |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. And Stephenie Meyer could surpass JK Rowling. But that doesn't make |
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mattvermont (428 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Meyer surpass Rowling? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. I'm assuming that Meyer spends decades writing a very long series |
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annarbor (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
39. I started reading Agatha Christie when I was about 13 |
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POAS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. Chaucer n/t |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Pffft. Chaucer never met a royal he didn't like. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. I thought it was Barbara Cartland? |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. There is no "greatest writer of all times," |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. B-b-but, there can only be one! n/t |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:35 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. That is precisely my point. n/t |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
22. most popular |
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Pool Hall Ace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. I get where you're coming from. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. +1 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
26. You seem to be mixing up my appreciation of Jackson with commercial success. |
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Phentex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. good point |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
28. The greatest writer of all time? Why it's ... |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
29. Major edit. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. The Bible had lots of writers, not one. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. MJ's popularlity has survived until today also , he isn't some recent star |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
37. Nicely done |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
40. If her fans say she is then I have no problem with it |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Because the news media have decided to waste their limited resources |
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DesertDiamond (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 08:36 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I really think the media is focusing on MJ because 1) he sells, and 2) he DISTRACTS.... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
45. Would you get the fuck over it already? |
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