I've admitted it before, Skysaber's stuff is one of my guilty pleasures. But yeah, there are points where it's just too much to take. I never had that problem with "Mirrors Multiplied", oddly, but the Eva fic's now-missing 18th chapter with its long, extended diatribe about how the American school system is deliberately designed to churn out good little social conformists just disgusted me. (It may be heading that way now, but only because it's been undermined for decades. Saying it was deliberately built that way is just ignoring history.) What made it worse was that he used an entire classroom of students as a collective sockpuppet with a single speaking voice.
I was actually amused (mostly) by the Jewish heritage thing and in fact enjoyed the Talmudic argument passage quite a bit. (In fact, I wrote Jared and told him I found the 18th chapter disappointing and that the diatribe paled in comparison to the Talmudic sequence. Of course, he never wrote me back, as regardless of the good stuff I said to him, the criticism that came with it was probably all he perceived, and he ever had thin skin where that was concerned.)
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...
I was actually amused (mostly) by the Jewish heritage thing and in fact enjoyed the Talmudic argument passage quite a bit. (In fact, I wrote Jared and told him I found the 18th chapter disappointing and that the diatribe paled in comparison to the Talmudic sequence. Of course, he never wrote me back, as regardless of the good stuff I said to him, the criticism that came with it was probably all he perceived, and he ever had thin skin where that was concerned.)
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...