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Maybe if you actually pointed out people who didn\'t prove my point it might help you, Gregory Maguire\'s big claim to fame is fanfiction, that\'s what Wicked and ugly stepsister and mirror mirror, etc all are, fanfiction, so yeah, he\'s a fanfic author who happened to get published similar to what happened to Tomi Yuma and first end, and much like first end, his works were pretty terrible when compared to the original stories they are based on, but as I already pointed out, if these \
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Maybe if you actually pointed out people who didn\\\'t prove my point it might help you, Gregory Maguire\\\'s big claim to fame is fanfiction, that\\\'s what Wicked and ugly stepsister and mirror mirror, etc all are, fanfiction, so yeah, he\\\'s a fanfic author who happened to get published similar to what happened to Tomi Yuma and first end, and much like first end, his works were pretty terrible when compared to the original stories they are based on, but as I already pointed out, if these \\\"authors\\\" were any good, they would be writing their own original stories and not wasting their time on fanfictions, so you\\\'ve kind of proven my point there by showing an author who is only famous because of fanfiction, and as people like Britney Spears prove, being famous is not the same as being good.

As for Steven Brust, your argument might carry more water if more of his books weren\\\'t out of print, you know why books go out of print? Because there is no demand for them, something that doesn\\\'t happen with good authors. Even looking at his wiki page in the awards and honors section shows how limited his career has been. So yeah, pointing to him as being a good author really doesn\\\'t help your cause, since the evidence seems stacked against that.

Also I recommend you actually look up what the terms nonsensical claim and logic actually mean, because so far you\\\'ve only been able to support my argument rather than yours.
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I wasn\'t employing the Chewbacca defense, I was pointing out the irony of you saying that I was trolling, and how you failed to put out any sort of reasoned argument to disagree with what I had said, and now reading your follow up response, I see that my original comment was correct, as you spend most of your rant attacking me rather than actually trying to point out anything wrong with my argument. In fact you only get around to putting up a single attempt at a counter at the very end, and only to counter the comment I made about good authors not wasting their time with fanfics, so apparently you seem to have no problem with the main thrust of my argument that Fanfictions are of poor quality and that they have no grasp of the main series they are based on.
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I wasn\\\'t employing the Chewbacca defense, I was pointing out the irony of you saying that I was trolling, and how you failed to put out any sort of reasoned argument to disagree with what I had said, and now reading your follow up response, I see that my original comment was correct, as you spend most of your rant attacking me rather than actually trying to point out anything wrong with my argument. In fact you only get around to putting up a single attempt at a counter at the very end, and only to counter the comment I made about good authors writing original stories, and not wasting their time with fanfics, so apparently you seem to have no problem with the main thrust of my argument that Fanfictions are of poor quality and that they have no grasp of the main series they are based on.
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Maybe if you actually pointed out people who didn\'t prove my point it might help you, Gregory Maguire\'s big claim to fame is fanfiction, that\'s what Wicked and ugly stepsister and mirror mirror, etc all are, fanfiction, so yeah, he\'s a fanfic author who happened to get published similar to what happened to Tomi Yuma and first end, and much like first end, his works were pretty terrible when compared to the original stories they are based on, but as I already pointed out, if these \
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Maybe if you actually pointed out people who didn\\\'t prove my point it might help you, Gregory Maguire\\\'s big claim to fame is fanfiction, that\\\'s what Wicked and ugly stepsister and mirror mirror, etc all are, fanfiction, so yeah, he\\\'s a fanfic author who happened to get published similar to what happened to Tomi Yuma and first end, and much like first end, his works were pretty terrible when compared to the original stories they are based on, but as I already pointed out, if these \\\"authors\\\" were any good, they would be writing their own original stories and not wasting their time on fanfictions, so you\\\'ve kind of proven my point there by showing an author who is only famous because of fanfiction.

As for Steven Brust, your argument might carry more water if more of his books weren\\\'t out of print, you know why books go out of print? Because there is no demand for them, something that doesn\\\'t happen with good authors. Even looking at his wiki page in the awards and honors section shows how limited his career has been. So yeah, pointing to him as being a good author really doesn\\\'t help your cause, since the evidence seems stacked against that.

Also I recommend you actually look up what the terms nonsensical claim and logic actually mean, because so far you\\\'ve only been able to support my argument rather than yours.
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Maybe if you actually pointed out people who didn\'t prove my point it might help you, Gregory Maguire\'s big claim to fame is fanfiction, that\'s what Wicked and ugly stepsister and mirror mirror, etc all are, fanfiction, so yeah, he\'s a fanfic author who happened to get published similar to what happened to Tomi Yuma and first end, and much like first end, his works were pretty terrible when compared to the original stories they are based on, but as I already pointed out, if these \
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Maybe if you actually pointed out people who didn\\\'t prove my point it might help you, Gregory Maguire\\\'s big claim to fame is fanfiction, that\\\'s what Wicked and ugly stepsister and mirror mirror, etc all are, fanfiction, so yeah, he\\\'s a fanfic author who happened to get published similar to what happened to Tomi Yuma and first end, and much like first end, his works were pretty terrible when compared to the original stories they are based on, but as I already pointed out, if these \\\"authors\\\" were any good, they would be writing their own original stories and not wasting their time on fanfictions, so you\\\'ve kind of proven my point there by showing an author who is only famous because of fanfiction.

As for Steven Brust, your argument might carry more water if more of his books weren\\\'t out of print, you know why books go out of print? Because there is no demand for them, something that doesn\\\'t happen with good authors. Even looking at his wiki page in the awards and honors section shows how limited his career has been. So yeah, pointing to him as being a good author really doesn\\\'t help your cause, since the evidence seems stacked against that.

Also I recommend you actually look up what the terms nonsensical claim and logic actually mean, because so far you\\\'ve only been able to support my argument rather than yours.
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