Those three I've read. I don't get the hype about Harry Potter; it's a nice book, yes, I fit perfectly into the reader demographic when I first...
Try to one-up this: I enjoyed Paradise Regained because of the purple prose.
The impression that I get from pedophiles is that it's mostly about control, and having the feeling of absolute control over anyone but a child...
I realize that Tolkein was a bit long-winded -- for me the three books in the Lord of the Rings series were so difficult to slog through that I...
I have no doubt that pedophiles are as unlikely to be a psychopath as anyone else. I just can't put myself in his mind. The serial killer is much...
On the other hand, I'm struggling to write a 5000 word short from the perspective of a pedophile who ends up being the victim of a serial killer....
You sounded vehement. I don't know. Call it intellectual curiosity.
I tend to go overboard with details or be extremely terse, so I try to stick with the most vivid identifiers for a particular individual and let...
You're lucky. My autobiography would probably begin with 'she was a perfectly nice girl before she dropped her cat from the balcony.' Time...
With few exceptions, you could be describing one of my acquaintances. They're quite brilliant in their chosen fields, but one attempted suicide,...
First off: sorry for the double post. Needed a delineation somewhere, doubted pagebreak would have cut it, so...I give you postbreak! Not...
My advice? If they're too good to be true, they're probably not true. Similarly, do not give anyone the moral high ground. That eventually comes...
Thank you for evaluating this critically. I'll do my best to answer your queries, but he's a half-formed character at best, so I expect...
There are no heroes. I think that's the point you've all been missing. Maybe I shouldn't have used the terms 'protagonist' or 'villain' in this...
Oh no, I think we're going down the wrong path here. My questions to you aren't for my character, but rather out of intellectual curiosity. Say...
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